I have used multiple mmnormalize calls on the same message without a problem.

That being said, if you can combine your rulesets, it's going to be more effiecient than having to make multiple calls.

I believe the note in the docs is out of date.

David Lang

On Thu, 3 Jun 2021, rajeshksv via rsyslog wrote:

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2021 10:48:15 +0530
From: rajeshksv via rsyslog <[email protected]>
To: rsyslog-users <[email protected]>
Cc: rajeshksv <[email protected]>
Subject: [rsyslog] Multiple mmnormalize calls on same message

Hi Rsyslog Team,

We are planning to call mmnormalize multiple times for a message,

action(type="mmnormalize"
ruleBase="/etc/rsyslog.d/container_log_parse.rulebase" path="$!parsedmsg")
set $!msg = $!parsedmsg!log;
.......
.......
action(type="mmnormalize" rule=["rule=:%severity:word% %message:rest%"]
path="$!normalized_msg" variable="$!msg")

We found that, its working perfectly fine. However in docs
<https://www.rsyslog.com/doc/v8-stable/configuration/modules/mmnormalize.html>,
it says
"Note that mmnormalize should only be called once on each message.
Behaviour is undefined if multiple calls to mmnormalize happen for the same
message."

Couldn't understand completely what the statement means and the reasoning
behind it. Can we use mmnormalize like above or we should replace one of
mmnormalize functionality with other functions ? (we are using first
mmnormalize to split the message into multiple fields using space
delimiter. So, we can use re_extract function or property replacers or some
other function)


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