On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 02:11:32PM -0600, Dan Liles via Exim-users wrote:
> I am interested in getting real time stats across a cluster of exim servers
> to pull out and import into a separate database.
>
> Right now I am doing it using SSH but it seems like there should be
> something else I can use to post the results to a backend database.
>
> Ideally what I want is a "dashboard" which is essentially a webpage that
> allows me to review delivery stats across the cluster.
>
> Is there anything out there like that for exim?
We feed all exim logs into elasticsearch and query with Kibana.
Dashboard is pretty much real time, and makes seeing what's
happening across several servers much easier.
Graeme Fowler did a good write up a few years back which I based
our setup on, which might give a good starting point.
https://graemef.wordpress.com/tech-stuff/exim-logstash/
The elastic stack has moved on quite a bit so some things might
need updating slightly, but even still it shouldn't take long to
get a basic setup working.
You can easily then also use the logs to produce e.g. monthly
management reports as well. You could pull summary reports out to
feed into another database (which might be what you're doing with
SSH now if I understood correctly), or just start storing them in
another elasticsearch index.
Cheers,
Matthew
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