Hi,
Why the multiport sylog is better than the standard syslog source ?
I have many agents with syslog source (>5M events/day) and didn't notice any 
performance problem.
Jean
> Le 16 oct. 2014 à 17:22, Jeff Lord <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> You will get better perf out of the multiport syslog source
> 
>> On Wednesday, October 15, 2014, Sharninder <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I just looked at the existing syslogtcp source and it seems it does take 
>> pains to parse the hostname from the message and I think that is the best 
>> bet for me. Ofcourse, it might fail for a few devices, but I'll just have to 
>> think of something else for those.
>> 
>> --
>> Sharninder
>> 
>> 
>>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Sharninder <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Yes Jeff. That's a possiblity but I'm not sure (actually pretty sure) that 
>>> there would be a some random device which will not send their logs in the 
>>> proper format and my regex will break. This is the way I'll implement it if 
>>> I can't find anything better.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Sharninder
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Jeff Lord <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> You can also use a regex interceptor to extract hostname from the message 
>>>> (assuming it's there) and put that in an event header. From there you can 
>>>> route and create partitions with the header.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Wednesday, October 15, 2014, Hari Shreedharan 
>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> The Multiport syslog source can add the port number on which the data was 
>>>>> received to the event headers. You can use with a multiplexing channel 
>>>>> selector to separate this to different channels.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Hari
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Sharninder <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Guys,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm trying to implement a system to archive syslogs using flume. I've 
>>>>>> played around with it a bit but haven't really been able to figure out a 
>>>>>> way to segregate logs according to the host they're coming from? Is 
>>>>>> there a way for me to add the hostname to the event header somehow? I 
>>>>>> can then use either an interceptor to read the header or even a custom 
>>>>>> sink to deal with events based on the hostname.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Sharninder

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