Verbosity maybe its too much or too little

[gabrielmocan]

Hi Pete, I have a question about verbosity.

Back in the days of 1.6.x we had a consistency across nfcapd and sfcapd binaries.

A very useful information, which is displayed every minute, shows summary per exporter. Like below:

2022-12-20T11:42:00.004011279Z Total ignored packets: 0
2022-12-20T11:43:00.049420678Z Ident: 'wwwwwww' Flows: 8359, Packets: 9738, Bytes: 7285286, Sequence Errors: 3, Bad Packets: 0
2022-12-20T11:43:00.050152255Z Ident: 'zzzzzzzz' Flows: 9762, Packets: 15236, Bytes: 16410837, Sequence Errors: 3, Bad Packets: 0
2022-12-20T11:43:00.050296065Z Ident: 'yyyyyyy' Flows: 0, Packets: 0, Bytes: 0, Sequence Errors: 2, Bad Packets: 0
2022-12-20T11:43:00.051099732Z Ident: 'xxxxxxx' Flows: 44813, Packets: 128244, Bytes: 117486341, Sequence Errors: 0, Bad Packets: 0

Now that behaviour changed on 1.7, meaning that I have to use "-v" flag to display this info. Ok so far, but 2 things comes in:

1. sometimes I have a bulk of random information between the regular minute-log:

2022-12-20T11:41:00.143998745Z File Block Header:
2022-12-20T11:41:00.144014081Z Type = 3
2022-12-20T11:41:00.144029060Z Size = 32
2022-12-20T11:41:00.144032957Z NumRecords = 1
2022-12-20T11:41:00.144036213Z
2022-12-20T11:41:00.144039563Z File Block Header:
2022-12-20T11:41:00.144043266Z Type = 3
2022-12-20T11:41:00.144046485Z Size = 45132
2022-12-20T11:41:00.144049570Z NumRecords = 249
2022-12-20T11:41:00.144052803Z
2022-12-20T11:41:00.144056183Z File Block Header:
2022-12-20T11:41:00.144064897Z Type = 3
2022-12-20T11:41:00.144068675Z Size = 435240
2022-12-20T11:41:00.144072068Z NumRecords = 2430
2022-12-20T11:41:00.144075296Z
2022-12-20T11:41:00.144078570Z File Block Header:
2022-12-20T11:41:00.144081721Z Type = 3
2022-12-20T11:41:00.144084969Z Size = 691556
2022-12-20T11:41:00.144088305Z NumRecords = 3743
2022-12-20T11:41:00.144091464Z
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2. Using -v option on sfcapd makes it extremely verbose, basically logging EVERY record that comes in.

So I ask, could we go back to the old behaviour of 1.6, just to show the per minute summary for both nfcapd and sfcapd without having to pass "-v" flag?

Best,
Gabe.

[phaag]

Ok - fair point! I will rework the logging.