Re: Logger quietly dropping messages

Luke Bakken <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Dec 2021 14:38:31 -0800

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Hi Mark,

Don't take this as gospel but it does appear that messages are dropped
in the manner you describe -

https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/lib/kernel/src/logger_olp.erl#L378-L390

On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 1:35 PM Mark Geib <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Recently a new application received a storm of SNMP traps, resulting in a burst of log messages.
> I have confirmed that more than the default 500 messages were generated in a one second period.
> I wanted to confirm that if the “burst_limit_max_count" is exceeded in the default 1 second time period that any new messages would be dropped, and no log message indicating the action is written.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark.