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NAME

       loggen - Generate syslog messages at a specified rate

SYNOPSIS

       loggen [options]target [port]

DESCRIPTION

       NOTE: The loggen application is distributed with the syslog-ng system logging application,
       and is usually part of the syslog-ng package. The latest version of the syslog-ng
       application is available at the official syslog-ng website[1].

       This manual page is only an abstract, for the complete documentation of syslog-ng, see The
       syslog-ng Administrator Guide[2].

       The loggen application is tool to test and stress-test your syslog server and the
       connection to the server. It can send syslog messages to the server at a specified rate,
       using a number of connection types and protocols, including TCP, UDP, and unix domain
       sockets. The messages can be generated automatically (repeating the PADDstring over and
       over), or read from a file or the standard input.

       When loggen finishes sending the messages, it displays the following statistics:

       •   average rate: Average rate the messages were sent in messages/second.

       •   count: The total number of messages sent.

       •   time: The time required to send the messages in seconds.

       •   average message size: The average size of the sent messages in bytes.

       •   bandwidth: The average bandwidth used for sending the messages in kilobytes/second.

OPTIONS

       --active-connections <number-of-connections>
           Number of connections loggen will use to send messages to the destination. This option
           is usable only when using TCP or TLS connections to the destination. Default value: 1

           The loggen utility waits until every connection is established before starting to send
           messages. See also the --idle-connections option.

       --csv or -C
           Send the statistics of the sent messages to stdout as CSV. This can be used for
           plotting the message rate.

       --dgram or -D
           Use datagram socket (UDP or unix-dgram) to send the messages to the target. Requires
           the --inet option as well.

       --dont-parse or -d
           Do not parse the lines read from the input files, send them as received.

       --help or -h
           Display a brief help message.

       --idle-connections <number-of-connections>
           Number of idle connections loggen will establish to the destination. Note that loggen
           will not send any messages on idle connections, but the connection is kept open using
           keep-alive messages. This option is usable only when using TCP or TLS connections to
           the destination. See also the --active-connections option. Default value: 0

       --inet or -i
           Use the TCP (by default) or UDP (when used together with the --dgram option) protocol
           to send the messages to the target.

       --interval <seconds> or -I <seconds>
           The number of seconds loggen will run. Default value: 10

               Note
               Note that when the --interval and --number are used together, loggen will send
               messages until the period set in --interval expires or the amount of messages set
               in --number is reached, whichever happens first.

       --ipv6 or -6
           Specify the destination using its IPv6 address. Note that the destination must have a
           real IPv6 address.

       --loop-reading or -l
           Read the file specified in --read-file option in loop: loggen will start reading from
           the beginning of the file when it reaches the end of the file.

       --number <number-of-messages> or -n <number-of-messages>
           Number of messages to generate.

               Note
               Note that when the --interval and --number are used together, loggen will send
               messages until the period set in --interval expires or the amount of messages set
               in --number is reached, whichever happens first.

       --no-framing or -F
           Do not use the framing of the IETF-syslog protocol style, even if the syslog-proto
           option is set.

       --quiet or -Q
           Output statistics only when the execution of loggen is finished. If not set, the
           statistics are displayed every second.

       --permanent or -T
           Keep sending logs indefinitely, without time limit.

       --rate <message/second> or -r <message/second>
           The number of messages generated per second for every active connection. Default
           value: 1000

       --read-file <filename> or -R <filename>
           Read the messages from a file and send them to the target. See also the --skip-tokens
           option.

           Specify - as the input file to read messages from the standard input (stdio). Note
           that when reading messages from the standard input, loggen can only use a single
           thread. The -R - parameters must be placed at end of command, like: loggen 127.0.0.1
           1061 --read-file -

       --sdata <data-to-send> or -p <data-to-send>
           Send the argument of the --sdata option as the SDATA part of IETF-syslog (RFC5424
           formatted) messages. Use it together with the --syslog-proto option. For example:
           --sdata "[test name=\"value\"]

       --size <message-size> or -s <message-size>
           The size of a syslog message in bytes. Default value: 256. Minimum value: 127 bytes,
           maximum value: 8192 bytes.

       --skip-tokens <number>
           Skips the specified number of space-separated tokens (words) at the beginning of every
           line. For example, if the messages in the file look like foo bar message,
           --skip-tokens 2 skips the foo bar part of the line, and sends only the message part.
           Works only when used together with the --read-file parameter. Default value: 0

       --stream or -S
           Use a stream socket (TCP or unix-stream) to send the messages to the target.

       --syslog-proto or -P
           Use the new IETF-syslog message format as specified in RFC5424. By default, loggen
           uses the legacy BSD-syslog message format (as described in RFC3164). See also the
           --no-framing option.

       --unix </path/to/socket> or -x </path/to/socket>
           Use a UNIX domain socket to send the messages to the target.

       --use-ssl or -U
           Use an SSL-encrypted channel to send the messages to the target. Note that it is not
           possible to check the certificate of the target, or to perform mutual authentication.

       --version or -V
           Display version number of syslog-ng.

EXAMPLES

       The following command generates 100 messages per second for ten minutes, and sends them to
       port 2010 of the localhost via TCP. Each message is 300 bytes long.

           loggen --stream --size 300 --rate 100 --interval 600 127.0.0.1 2010

       The following command is similar to the one above, but uses the UDP protocol.

           loggen --inet --dgram --size 300 --rate 100 --interval 600 127.0.0.1 2010

       Send a single message on TCP6 to the ::1 IPv6 address, port 1061:

           loggen --ipv6 --number 1 ::1 1061

       Send a single message on UDP6 to the ::1 IPv6 address, port 1061:

           loggen --ipv6 --dgram --number 1 ::1 1061

       Send a single message using a unix domain-socket:

           loggen --unix --stream --number 1 </path/to/socket>

       Read messages from the standard input (stdio) and send them to the localhost:

           loggen 127.0.0.1 1061 --read-file -

FILES

       /usr/bin/loggen

SEE ALSO

       syslog-ng.conf(5)

           Note
           For the detailed documentation of see The 3.35 Administrator Guide[3]

           If you experience any problems or need help with syslog-ng, visit the syslog-ng
           mailing list[4].

           For news and notifications about of syslog-ng, visit the syslog-ng blogs[5].

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by the Balabit Documentation Team
       <documentation@balabit.com>.

COPYRIGHT

NOTES

        1. the official syslog-ng website
           https://www.balabit.com/log-management

        2. The syslog-ng Administrator Guide
           https://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/

        3. The  3.35 Administrator Guide
           https://www.balabit.com/documents/syslog-ng-ose-latest-guides/en/syslog-ng-ose-guide-admin/html/index.html

        4. syslog-ng mailing list
           https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng

        5. syslog-ng blogs
           https://syslog-ng.org/blogs/