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Another alternative to regular expression based message parsing that has native support within syslog-ng: patterndb (http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource...)

Very fast and a bit complex to setup, but well documented and well tooled. Mature. It could do with some more community love, tbh.




Thanks for the link. Do you have any info on the performance of this parser?


I'm sorry to say I do not. I've only very recently got a stable monitoring configuration in place with this as a key piece, parsing up messages and sending them to downstream programs.

I welcome the move away from regular expressions though - they are just not necessary in this particular domain. We'll see if PatternDB's coarse grained approach comes back to bite me.

I'm happy to help as I can if you decide to use PatternDB - you can find me at l.skibinski at elifesciences dot org. I have some notes for getting started quickly I really should publish ...




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