doc: add pcap file logging variable details

Signed-off-by: jason taylor <jtfas90@gmail.com>
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jason taylor 1 year ago committed by Victor Julien
parent f9a4e9c588
commit e891ef3d4e

@ -505,6 +505,27 @@ the alert.
mode: normal # "normal" or multi mode: normal # "normal" or multi
conditional: alerts conditional: alerts
In ``normal`` mode a pcap file "filename" is created in the default-log-dir or as
specified by "dir". ``normal`` mode is generally not as performant as ``multi``
mode.
In multi mode, multiple pcap files are created (per thread) which performs
better than ``normal`` mode.
In multi mode the filename takes a few special variables:
- %n representing the thread number
- %i representing the thread id
- %t representing the timestamp (secs or secs.usecs based on 'ts-format')
Example: filename: pcap.%n.%t
.. note:: It is possible to use directories but the directories are not
created by Suricata. For example ``filename: pcaps/%n/log.%s`` will log into
the pre-existing ``pcaps`` directory and per thread sub directories.
.. note:: that the limit and max-files settings are enforced per thread. So the
size limit using 8 threads with 1000mb files and 2000 files is about 16TiB.
Verbose Alerts Log (alert-debug.log) Verbose Alerts Log (alert-debug.log)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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