Eventlog Source Limitation on Server 2016
Hi, when configuring nxlog-CE on a Server 2016, there are limitations for collecting all eventlog sources. After starting the nxlog service, I see the following information in the nxlog-logfile:
2017-12-12 18:18:38 INFO nxlog-ce-2.9.1716 started
2017-12-12 18:18:50 WARNING Due to a limitation in the Windows EventLog subsystem, a query cannot contain more than 256 sources.
here is my nxlog-configuration:
define ROOT C:\Program Files (x86)\nxlog
Moduledir %ROOT%\modules
CacheDir %ROOT%\data
Pidfile %ROOT%\data\nxlog.pid
SpoolDir %ROOT%\data
LogFile %ROOT%\data\nxlog.log
<Extension gelf>
Module xm_gelf
</Extension>
<Input in>
Module im_msvistalog
Exec if ($EventType == 'VERBOSE') OR ($EventType == 'INFO') OR ($EventType == 'AUDIT_SUCCESS') drop();
Exec if ($SourceName == 'Microsoft-Windows-KnownFolders' AND $EventID == 1002) drop();
</Input>
<Output out>
Module om_udp
OutputType GELF
Host our.graylog.server
Port 1515
</Output>
<Route 1>
Path in => out
</Route>
We use the same configuration on our Windows Server 2012 / 2012 R2 systems without any issues.
Will there be a fix in the a new edition? We don't want to filter the eventlog sources in the configuration.
Kind regards, Markus
This is already solved in the NXLog Enterprise Edition as far as I know. It will be also fixed in the CE at some point but there is no ETA.