config looks good on quick look, so we really need to see impstats. Set it
10 second interval, then create the problem situation.

doc on impstats:
https://www.rsyslog.com/doc/v8-stable/configuration/modules/impstats.html

Rainer

El vie., 8 mar. 2019 a las 9:50, João Pereira (<[email protected]>)
escribió:

> Hi Rainer,
>
> Sure.
>
> The forwarding service (the first one) just compress and sends data to the
> other.
> /etc/rsyslog.d/31-forwarding.conf
>
> if $syslogfacility-text == 'local6' or $syslogfacility-text == 'local5'
> then {
>
>         action(
>                 type="omfwd"
>                 Target="example.com"
>                 ZipLevel="9"
>                 compression.mode="stream:always"
>                 compression.stream.flushOnTXEnd="off"
>                 TCP_Framing="octet-counted"
>                 Port="514"
>                 Protocol="tcp"
>         )
>
>         stop
> }
>
>
> The others have several rules like:
>
> /etc/rsyslog.d/31-second_service.conf
>
> template(name="providerIndexTemplate" type="string"
> string="%PROGRAMNAME%-%TIMESTAMP:::date-year%%TIMESTAMP:::date-month%%TIMESTAMP:::date-day%")
>
> template(name="providerPEIndexTemplate" type="string"
> string="fastly_pe-%TIMESTAMP:::date-year%%TIMESTAMP:::date-month%%TIMESTAMP:::date-day%")
>
> if $syslogfacility-text == 'local0' then {
>         action(type="mmnormalize"
> rulebase="/etc/rsyslog.d/33-second_service.rb")
>
>         set $!severity_code = $syslogseverity;
>         set $!severity = $syslogseverity-text;
>
>         if $parsesuccess != "OK" then {
>                 set $!timestamp = exec_template("timeStampGenerator");
>                 set $!fac = $syslogfacility;
>                 set $!host = $hostname;
>
>                 action(
>                         type="omelasticsearch"
>                         template="all-json"  # we use the template defined
> earlier.
>                         searchIndex="providerPEIndexTemplate"
>                         dynSearchIndex="on"
>                         searchType="providerSyslog" # we specify a static
> string.
>                         dynSearchType="off"
>                         server="127.0.0.1"
>                         serverport="9200"
>                         bulkmode="on"  # use the bulk API
>                         queue.size="60000"
>                         queue.workerthreads="2"
>                         queue.dequeuebatchsize="2000"
>                 )
>         } else {
>
>                 action(
>                         type="omelasticsearch"
>                         template="all-json"  # we use the template defined
> earlier.
>                         searchIndex="providerIndexTemplate"
>                         dynSearchIndex="on"
>                         searchType="providerSyslog" # we specify a static
> string.
>                         dynSearchType="off"
>                         server="127.0.0.1"
>                         serverport="9200"
>                         bulkmode="on"  # use the bulk API
>                         queue.size="600000"
>                         queue.workerthreads="2"
>                         queue.dequeuebatchsize="2000"
>                         queue.timeoutEnqueue="0"
>                 )
>
>         }
>         stop
> }
>
> The /etc/rsyslog.conf file is the same on both services:
>
> $ModLoad imuxsock # provides support for local system logging
> $ModLoad imklog   # provides kernel logging support (previously done by
> rklogd)
> module(load="omprog")
> module(load="imptcp" threads="8")
> input(type="imptcp" port="514" compression.mode="stream:always"
> KeepAlive="on")
> input(type="imptcp" port="515")
>
> main_queue (
>         queue.type="fixedArray"
>         queue.size="250000"
>         queue.dequeueBatchSize="4096"
>         queue.workerThreads="4"
>         queue.workerThreadMinimumMessages="60000"
>         queue.discardSeverity="6"
>         queue.timeoutEnqueue="0"
> )
>
> $MaxOpenFiles 40000
> $RepeatedMsgReduction off
> $EscapeControlCharactersOnReceive off
> $MaxMessageSize 124k
> $FileOwner syslog
> $FileGroup adm
> $FileCreateMode 0640
> $DirCreateMode 0755
> $Umask 0022
> $PrivDropToUser syslog
> $PrivDropToGroup syslog
> $WorkDirectory /var/spool/rsyslog
> $IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf
>
> Regarding the imstats, I'm having some problem understanding them. There
> is a place where I can have all explained ?
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 5:52 PM Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> We need at least the config of the initial instane. I guess buffering is
>> not properly set up. May also be a volume problem, what impstats will show.
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>> João Pereira <[email protected]> schrieb am Do., 7. März 2019,
>> 16:21:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> We are facing an issue with rsyslog and we cannot find what is happening
>>> behind.
>>>
>>> We're using rsyslog to receive logs from one of our providers, the
>>> problem
>>> is that the provider stops sending logs (during aprox 10m) when it
>>> detects
>>> the receiver is down meaning that every time we restart rsyslog server we
>>> loose logs for ~10m.
>>>
>>> As we cannot control what the provider does, we came up with the idea of
>>> having two rsyslog services on our machines. The first would only receive
>>> the logs sent by our provider and forward them to the other rsyslog
>>> service, the latests being responsible for parsing the logs and send it
>>> to
>>> elasticsearch. This would allow us to change the configuration on the
>>> second service (which are changes mostly on parsing rules) without having
>>> to restart the forwarding service that contacts with our provider.
>>>
>>> That way we would be able to fool our provider because the forwarding
>>> service would always be available, this sounded good on paper but when we
>>> put it in production we realised that when we restart the second service
>>> the first hangs (stops working for a while) and the failure is detected
>>> by
>>> our provider which stops sending logs.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to improve this setup ? Can we make the forwarding
>>> service
>>> to not hang ? Why rsyslog has this behaviour ?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>>
>>> --
>>>
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>>>
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