Re: Key based rate limiter (audit_set_rate_limit)

Anurag Aggarwal <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Feb 2023 21:05:17 +0530
Newsgroups com.redhat.linux-audit
Message-ID <CAPoNrtswDzsghShzAvf72xOQ-vWUj6DdkVPRWnBWp-qG9Xa8Vw@mail.gmail.com>
Hello Paul,

Thank you for your information.


> If you have a particular audit
> rule which is too verbose *and* you are willing to lose audit records
> from that filter rule (which is what would happen if they were rate
> limited), you might want to consider making that audit filter rule
> more targeted to the event you are interested in logging.  Generating
> more audit records than you want to see can be a sign of an overly
> general audit rule.
>

I agree that having rules which are too verbose is not a very good idea.

Beside this, is there any other mechanism which we can use to get a similar
effect?

-- 
Anurag Aggarwal

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