Key based rate limiter (audit_set_rate_limit)

Anurag Aggarwal anurag19aggarwal at gmail.com
Tue Feb 28 15:35:17 UTC 2023


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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