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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Did you enable the stats file in the suricata.yaml?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:solid #E2E2E2 1.0pt;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt;background:#FAFAFA;margin-left:19.2pt;margin-right:12.0pt'><pre style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#FAFAFA;border:none;padding:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Also when you build suricata use this flag </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#484848'>--enable-profiling (I think this is the one I used)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#FAFAFA;border:none;padding:0in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#484848'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> discussion-bounces@lists.openinfosecfoundation.org [mailto:discussion-bounces@lists.openinfosecfoundation.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dan Groen<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 23, 2013 12:44 PM<br><b>To:</b> Discussion@lists.openinfosecfoundation.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Discussion] Suricata Packets Per Second metric<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I am interested in looking at the number of packets per second that Suricata has processed but have not found this metric listed in its output. I have checked the log files, alert files, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>There are multiple papers online which list pps or packets/second, so my suspicion is that i am missing something obvious. Could someone direct me to the appropriate data set?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>