[rsyslog-notify] Forum Thread: Re: How to Determine Message Drops ? - (Mode 'reply')

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User: dlang 
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called.recmmmsg is the number of times that particular system call was
called. It can be used to see how efficiently the messages are bing
processed

as for identifying dropped messages, the first thing is that if the queue
is full, messages will be dropped. There can be other reasons for messages
to be dropped, some of which will not show up in ANY rsyslog stats, because
the OS can drop the message before rsyslog ever sees it

if you set a ratelimit, the ratelimit stat tells you how many times the
rate limit was applied and how many messages were dropped as a result of
the ratelimit. If you disable the ratelimit, those numbers are always going
to be zero.