Disable statistics in Syslog-NG - log spam

[ProxyMoron]

Hi All,
Is there any way to disable statistics in syslog-ng? These spam the logs and make it difficult to track issues an example is below:-

Jan  6 22:43:00 pfsense syslog-ng[25273]: Log statistics; processed='global(internal_queue_length)=0', queued='global(scratch_buffers_count)=0', queued='global(scratch_buffers_bytes)=0', processed='global(msg_clones)=0', processed='src.internal(_DEFAULT#0)=84', stamp='src.internal(_DEFAULT#0)=1641508380', processed='center(received)=129', processed='center(queued)=129', processed='destination(_DEFAULT)=129', processed='global(payload_reallocs)=83', processed='source(_DEFAULT)=129', dropped='global(internal_source)=0', queued='global(internal_source)=0', processed='global(sdata_updates)=0'
Jan  6 22:53:00 pfsense syslog-ng[25273]: Log statistics; processed='global(internal_queue_length)=0', queued='global(scratch_buffers_count)=0', queued='global(scratch_buffers_bytes)=0', processed='global(msg_clones)=0', processed='src.internal(_DEFAULT#0)=85', stamp='src.internal(_DEFAULT#0)=1641508980', processed='center(received)=130', processed='center(queued)=130', processed='destination(_DEFAULT)=130', processed='global(payload_reallocs)=84', processed='source(_DEFAULT)=130', dropped='global(internal_source)=0', queued='global(internal_source)=0', processed='global(sdata_updates)=0'
Jan  6 23:03:00 pfsense syslog-ng[25273]: Log statistics; processed='global(internal_queue_length)=0', queued='global(scratch_buffers_count)=0', queued='global(scratch_buffers_bytes)=0', processed='global(msg_clones)=0', processed='src.internal(_DEFAULT#0)=86', stamp='src.internal(_DEFAULT#0)=1641509580', processed='center(received)=131', processed='center(queued)=131', processed='destination(_DEFAULT)=131', processed='global(payload_reallocs)=85', processed='source(_DEFAULT)=131', dropped='global(internal_source)=0', queued='global(internal_source)=0', processed='global(sdata_updates)=0'
Jan  6 23:13:00 pfsense syslog-ng[25273]: Log statistics; processed='global(internal_queue_length)=0', queued='global(scratch_buffers_count)=0', queued='global(scratch_buffers_bytes)=0', processed='global(msg_clones)=0', processed='src.internal(_DEFAULT#0)=87', stamp='src.internal(_DEFAULT#0)=1641510180', processed='center(received)=132', processed='center(queued)=132', processed='destination(_DEFAULT)=132', processed='global(payload_reallocs)=86', processed='source(_DEFAULT)=132', dropped='global(internal_source)=0', queued='global(internal_source)=0', processed='global(sdata_updates)=0'

I found a commit in TrueNAS where they modified the syslog-ng.conf file from:-

options { chain_hostnames(off); flush_lines(0); threaded(yes); use-fqdn(no); };

to:-

options { chain_hostnames(off); flush_lines(0); threaded(yes); use-fqdn(no); stats-freq(0); };

But when i open /usr/local/etc/syslog-ng.conf on pfsense it specifically says:-

This file is automatically generated by pfSense
Do not edit manually !

Any other way of doing this?

[stephenw10]

You can create an options object in the package and add whatever you need.

Results in:

# This file is automatically generated by pfSense
# Do not edit manually !
@version:3.32
destination _DEFAULT { file("/var/syslog-ng/default.log"); };
log { source(_DEFAULT); destination(_DEFAULT); };
source _DEFAULT { internal(); syslog(transport(udp) port(5140) ip(192.168.144.1)); };
options {chain_hostnames(off); flush_lines(0); threaded(yes); use-fqdn(no); stats-freq(0);};

Steve

[ProxyMoron]

Ahh that's brilliant,
I didn't equate that option in the advanced settings with the config file.

Many thanks