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Zabbix Log Monitoring

This document summarizes the configuration of a Zabbix agent log monitoring item that tracks kernel log messages from /var/log/messages. It is configured with a regular expression to match lines containing "kernel:", will return up to 1000 lines per check, and will skip older data. The available log monitoring key parameters are also described.

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Zabbix Log Monitoring

This document summarizes the configuration of a Zabbix agent log monitoring item that tracks kernel log messages from /var/log/messages. It is configured with a regular expression to match lines containing "kernel:", will return up to 1000 lines per check, and will skip older data. The available log monitoring key parameters are also described.

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:: ITEM CONFIGURATION ::

Name: Kernel Log


Type: Zabbix agent (active)
Key: log[/var/log/messages,"kernel:",,1000,skip]
Type of information: Text

Available option
log[file,<regexp>,<encoding>,<maxlines>,<mode>,<output>,<maxdelay>]

file - path to file

regexp - regular expression describing the required content pattern

encoding - code page identifier; UTF-8 is the default value.

maxlines - maximum number of new lines per second the agent will send to Zabbix server or proxy. This
parameter overrides the value of 'MaxLinesPerSecond' in zabbix_agentd.conf

mode - possible values:


all (default), skip - skip processing of older data (affects only newly created items).

output - an optional output formatting template. If left blank then item will provide matched line.

maxdelay - maximum delay in seconds. Type: float. Values: 0 - (default) never ignore log file lines; > 0.0 -
ignore older lines in order to get the most recent lines analyzed within maxdelay seconds.

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