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Mercury

What is Mercury ?

Mercury is a syslog forwarder.

Why another one ?

the main goals are :

  • providing isolation between sources, and between destinations
  • providing loading/unloading conf without restart
  • providing FIFO support for software with file-only logging
  • outputing only rfc5424 message
  • if you use a log aggregator, all the filters and complex-dispatching will run on the aggregator not the source host
  • if you have lots of vms, containers, jails, chroot, you may need a lightweight forwarder

configuration

rules

  1. Each configuration block is a specific file.
  2. Each configuration block is a json serialization in a file.
  3. There is two kinds of drivers : input driver and output driver
  4. The only globally mandatories keys are : "id" and "driver"
  5. The key "id" is the name of a configuration block
  6. The key "driver" is the used driver for a configuration block
  7. An instance is a configuration block with an id and a driver
  8. An output instance is a configuration block with an id and a driver using an output driver
  9. The key "output" is mandatory for input drivers
  10. The key "output" is a list of "id" of output instance

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