Thanks Mathew!
I'm looking at this solution now - I do have one question though. What's
the best way to setup rsyslog so that I can aggregate the log data to one
location? I don't have that setup right now and I'm a bit confused on how
to do it.
Thanks,
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Newton [
mailto:mcn4@leicester.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 5:44 PM
To: Dan Liles <danliles72@???>
Cc: 'Exim-users' <Exim-users@???>
Subject: Re: [exim] exim queue stats across a cluster
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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