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/usr/bin/access-log-exporter

Prometheus exporter for access logs received through syslog

From access-log-exporter-fips 0.5.2-r1 (enterprise-packages), captured 2026-11-08 by running access-log-exporter --help (exit 0). permalink

Documentation available at https://github.com/jkroepke/access-log-exporter/wiki

Usage of access-log-exporter:

  --buffer-size uint
    	Size of the buffer for syslog messages. Default is 1000. Set to 0 to disable buffering. (env: CONFIG_BUFFER__SIZE) (default 1000)
  --config string
    	path to one .yaml config file (env: CONFIG_FILE) (default "config.yaml")
  --debug.enable
    	Enables go profiling endpoint. This should be never exposed. (env: CONFIG_DEBUG_ENABLE)
  --log.format string
    	log format. json or console (env: CONFIG_LOG_FORMAT) (default "console")
  --log.level value
    	log level. Can be one of: debug, info, warn, error (env: CONFIG_LOG_LEVEL) (default INFO)
  --nginx.scrape-timeout duration
    	Timeout for scraping NGINX metrics. (env: CONFIG_NGINX_SCRAPE__TIMEOUT) (default 1s)
  --nginx.scrape-url value
    	A URI or unix domain socket path for scraping NGINX metrics. For NGINX, the stub_status page must be available through the URI. Examples: http://127.0.0.1/stub_status or unix:///var/run/nginx-status.sock (env: CONFIG_NGINX_SCRAPE__URL)
  --preset string
    	Preset configuration to use. Available presets: simple, simple_apache, simple_upstream, simple_uri_upstream. Custom presets can be defined via config file. (env: CONFIG_PRESET) (default "simple")
  --syslog.listen-address string
    	Addresses on which to expose syslog. Examples: udp://0.0.0.0:8514, unix:///path/to/socket. (env: CONFIG_SYSLOG_LISTEN__ADDRESS) (default "udp://[::]:8514")
  --verify-config
    	Enable this flag to check config file loads, then exit (env: CONFIG_VERIFY__CONFIG)
  --version
    	show version
  --web.listen-address :4041
    	Addresses on which to expose metrics. Examples: :4041 or `[::1]:4041` for http (env: CONFIG_WEB_LISTEN__ADDRESS) (default ":4040")
  --web.tls-cert-file string
    	Path to the TLS certificate file. When set along with --web.tls-key-file, enables HTTPS. (env: CONFIG_WEB_TLS__CERT__FILE)
  --web.tls-key-file string
    	Path to the TLS private key file. When set along with --web.tls-cert-file, enables HTTPS. (env: CONFIG_WEB_TLS__KEY__FILE)
  --worker int
    	Number of workers to process syslog messages. 0 or below means number of available CPU cores. (env: CONFIG_WORKER)
Options (15)
OptionDescriptionSource
--buffer-size uintSize of the buffer for syslog messages.help
--config stringpath to one .yaml config file (env: CONFIG_FILE) (default "config.yaml")help
--debug.enableEnables go profiling endpoint.help
--log.format stringlog format.help
--log.level valuelog level.help
--nginx.scrape-timeout durationTimeout for scraping NGINX metrics.help
--nginx.scrape-url valueA URI or unix domain socket path for scraping NGINX metrics.help
--preset stringPreset configuration to use.help
--syslog.listen-address stringAddresses on which to expose syslog.help
--verify-configEnable this flag to check config file loads, then exit (env: CONFIG_VERIFY__CONFIG)help
--versionshow versionhelp
--web.listen-address :4041Addresses on which to expose metrics.help
--web.tls-cert-file stringPath to the TLS certificate file.help
--web.tls-key-file stringPath to the TLS private key file.help
--worker intNumber of workers to process syslog messages.help

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