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The "last message repeated n times" feature will go away in future versions. Thus, we are now looking at who is actually using this feature and for what reason. If you would like us to keep it, please tell us in this thread why it is important for you.

If you would like to enable the repeated message reduction feature, use $RepeatedMsgReduction to turn it on:

$RepeatedMsgReduction on

If you do that, please post here why it is important to you - otherwise it won't work in future releases!

For additional information, please also see this mailing list thread: http://lists.adiscon.net/pipermail/rsys ... 00603.html

Thanks,
Rainer

• Custom written rsyslog.conf?
• Maintenance Contract?
• Installation support?

Dear Rainer, thank you for great software!

please don`t remove this feature! some buggy wifi access point (manufactured by Dlink) very like to send hundreds of identical messages sometimes.
we have only ~50 devices in network and receive 1-2k of duplicated messages every day

sorry for bad english

Hi, good work,

I'd like to have the possibility to use this option in future. As developer from time to time it's possible that new software is putting messages repeatedly.
It is good to have a feature like $RepeatedMsgReduction to let the user/admin manage the amount of messages written to file.
If it was possible to set this config for every message file independently, this was the ultimate effort.

Thanks debaba

Hi, thanks for the feedback. The current thinking is a bit into a different direction: I am currently thinking about rate-limiting the inputs, so that when too many messages occur, the input is put to a hold (or duplicate messages are consolidated here). Of course, nothing is fixed yet. So I would be interested in your use case for this per-action handling.

Thanks,
Rainer