# imkmsg: /dev/kmsg Log Input Module

Module Name: | imkmsg
Author: | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> Milan Bartos <mbartos@redhat.com>

## Purpose

Reads messages from the /dev/kmsg structured kernel log and submits them to the syslog engine.

The printk log buffer contains log records. These records are exported by /dev/kmsg device as structured data in the following format: “level,sequnum,timestamp;<message text>\n” There could be continuation lines starting with space that contains key/value pairs. Log messages are parsed as necessary into rsyslog msg_t structure. Continuation lines are parsed as json key/value pairs and added into rsyslog’s message json representation.

## Configuration Parameters

Note

Parameter names are case-insensitive.

This module has no configuration directives.

## Caveats/Known Bugs:

This module can’t be used together with imklog module. When using one of them, make sure the other one is not enabled.

This is Linux specific module and requires /dev/kmsg device with structured kernel logs.

## Examples

The following sample pulls messages from the /dev/kmsg log device. All parameters are left by default, which is usually a good idea. Please note that loading the plugin is sufficient to activate it. No directive is needed to start pulling messages.

    $ModLoad imkmsg

See also

Help with configuring/using `Rsyslog`:

- Mailing list - best route for general questions

- GitHub: rsyslog source project - detailed questions, reporting issues that are believed to be bugs with `Rsyslog`

- Stack Exchange (View, Ask) - experimental support from rsyslog community

See also

Contributing to `Rsyslog`:

- Source project: rsyslog project README.

- Documentation: rsyslog-doc project README

Copyright 2008-2020 Rainer Gerhards (Großrinderfeld), and Others.