rsyslog/epylog reporting

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:59, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 10:46 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 09:31, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 09:12 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >> > - an rsync module I wrote years ago would be useful for our epylog
>> >> > instance
>> >>
>> >> Yes. Stats from download* and hosted would be nice. Would show if one
>> >> of the machines was processing less, etc.
>> >
>> > I need to go find that rsync module. I think I know where it is.
>> >
>>
>> How does epylog work with httpd files?
>
> httpd logs in their own format - probably just 'meh'.
>
> httpd logs as syslogs might be a different story.
>
> but let's be clear - http logs were not within the original scope of
> what epylog was meant to do.

I was trying to short cut looking at two different tools to figure out
how much is downloaded. However I can understand making this not a
feature.

> the question for me is whether or not we can narrow what we're looking
> for more to make it useful.
>
> for example - it may make sense to see about creating an http error log
> parser but not a general access log parser.



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