On Tuesday, September 3, 2019 5:15:29 PM EDT Ankitha Kundhuru wrote:
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> My piece of code can read audit.log file and process it.But when I enable
> good number of syscalls, disk gets filled really quick (15GB for half a day
> usage)
> I wanted to know if there is a way to directly get the events from
> userspace audit daemon instead of writing it to a file. Plan is that my
> application should process the events as soon as they are created.

Yes, there is a presentation that describes the architecture of the audit
system including the realtime event interface:

http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/audit_ids_2011.pdf

And there is sample code for a plugin here:

https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-userspace/tree/master/contrib/plugin

-Steve