How to disable log rate-limiting in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Issue
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We want to log all messages to syslog, what should I add/change in rsyslog.conf config to avoid losing messages?
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Why am I getting the below messages in my RHEL 7 server?
Apr 7 11:50:35 localhost rsyslogd-2177: imjournal: begin to drop messages due to rate-limiting Apr 7 11:50:47 localhost rsyslogd-2177: imjournal: 406 messages lost due to rate-limiting Apr 7 12:00:38 localhost rsyslogd-2177: imjournal: begin to drop messages due to rate-limiting Apr 7 12:00:48 localhost rsyslogd-2177: imjournal: 391 messages lost due to rate-limiting Apr 7 12:19:21 localhost rsyslogd-2177: imjournal: begin to drop messages due to rate-limiting -
How do I disable rate limiting using rsyslog7 on my RHEL7 server?
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I disabled rate limiting in rsyslog.conf but I'm still missing messages. I see warnings like this in the journal:
Oct 28 02:07:57 localhost systemd-journal[1864]: Suppressed 97 messages from /
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- rsyslog
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