[rsyslog] Alert when multiple repeated lines are found

[Julian Yap]

Hmm, Nagios is a pain to set up.  Looking for something more light
weight...  Was hoping that I could have consolidated lots of Alerts
under Rsyslog.

Any other suggestions besides Swatch?



On 7/31/08, (private) HKS <hks.private at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not in rsyslogd itself, but you could do this with Swatch, Nagios, or
> some other monitoring-type software.
>
> -HKS
>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Julian Yap <julianokyap at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there a way to set an Alert when multiple repeated lines are found in a
>> log?
>>
>> I want to spawn an email Alert if a message is received 3 times.
>>
>> Example log lines:
>> Jul 30 04:19:29 localhost program: Error detected
>> Jul 30 05:19:29 localhost program: Error detected
>> Jul 30 06:19:29 localhost program: Error detected
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Julian
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