Batch mode in the HTTP destination

This section describes how to send messages in batches with the http() destination in syslog-ng OSE.

Batch mode

The batch-bytes(), batch-lines(), and batch-timeout() options of the destination determine how many log messages syslog-ng OSE sends in a batch. The batch-lines() option determines the maximum number of messages syslog-ng OSE puts in a batch in. This can be limited based on size and time:

• syslog-ng OSE sends a batch every batch-timeout() milliseconds, even if the number of messages in the batch is less than batch-lines(). That way the destination receives every message in a timely manner even if suddenly there are no more messages.

• syslog-ng OSE sends the batch if the total size of the messages in the batch reaches batch-bytes() bytes.

To increase the performance of the destination, increase the number of worker threads for the destination using the workers() option, or adjust the batch-bytes(), batch-lines(), batch-timeout() options.