So I currently have a rsyslog server running on ubuntu that is inserting into a db , this is all fine but I want to do some processing before the insert , I have a script that can do the formatting me but im not sure how to i direct rsyslog to send it to the script.
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You can have rsyslog send it to an executable by using a shell execute "^" action. However, at that point the script must insert it into the DB as rsyslog does no more processing. Otherwise, you could attempt to use rsyslog's limited "property replacer" language to define a template to do whatever formatting you want.