mmcount — rsyslog 8.24.0 documentation

# mmcount

Module Name: mmcount

Author:Bala.FA <barumuga@redhat.com>

Status:Non project-supported module - contact author or rsyslog mailing list for questions

Available since: 7.5.0

Description:

    mmcount: message modification plugin which counts messages

    This module provides the capability to count log messages by severity
    or json property of given app-name.  The count value is added into the
    log message as json property named 'mmcount'

    Example usage of the module in the configuration file

     module(load="mmcount")

     # count each severity of appname gluster
     action(type="mmcount" appname="gluster")

     # count each value of gf_code of appname gluster
     action(type="mmcount" appname="glusterd" key="!gf_code")

     # count value 9999 of gf_code of appname gluster
     action(type="mmcount" appname="glusterfsd" key="!gf_code" value="9999")

     # send email for every 50th mmcount
     if $app-name == 'glusterfsd' and $!mmcount <> 0 and $!mmcount % 50 == 0 then {
        $ActionMailSMTPServer smtp.example.com
        $ActionMailFrom rsyslog@example.com
        $ActionMailTo glusteradmin@example.com
        $template mailSubject,"50th message of gf_code=9999 on %hostname%"
        $template mailBody,"RSYSLOG Alert\r\nmsg='%msg%'"
        $ActionMailSubject mailSubject
        $ActionExecOnlyOnceEveryInterval 30
        :ommail:;RSYSLOG_SyslogProtocol23Format
     }

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