if you stop processing in graylog and the journal get filled and will drop the oldest message by time or if space limit is reached.
# Journal hold messages before they could be written to Elasticsearch.
# For a maximum of 12 hours or 5 GB whichever happens first.
# During normal operation the journal will be smaller.
#message_journal_max_age = 12h
message_journal_max_size = 1gb
But the statistics of the node, means the message count will not show the drop of the messages. Only if you proceed your processing the message count will suddenly drop to the real value.
ideas
show a warning if messages in the queue will be dropped or get dropped
display the correct message count
calculate the right amount of messages in the journal
if you stop processing in graylog and the journal get filled and will drop the oldest message by time or if space limit is reached.
But the statistics of the node, means the message count will not show the drop of the messages. Only if you proceed your processing the message count will suddenly drop to the real value.
ideas
Environment