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+1 (Even though this is over a year old)
Some justification for this would be the log-rotations which are stored as a backup, but shouldn't be transmitted
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+1, would love to see this, because of the log rotation issue
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The logstash agent that this is intended to replace supports 'exclude', and it's very useful.
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Considering that I'll most likely need this functionality in the near future, I've started working on this feature. Hopefully I'll have this completed and tested shortly!
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I can see your commit and have a suggestion.
Use filepath.Match to check if a file name matches any exclude pattern.
http://golang.org/pkg/path/filepath/#Match
It'll save doing two deep directory listings (which I think glob does) and it'll prevent race condition where a file appears between generating excluded files list and then doing path glob.
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Thanks for that tip @driskell. I hadn't considered that possibility of a race condition which will most likely happen at some point. I've applied that modification locally and I'll test it shortly before I push the changes.
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Awesome addition, was just looking for this. Eagerly awaiting a merge :)
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It's worth noting that some simple exclusions can be done with a glob regex, detailed here https://blog.vladionescu.com/excluding-from-a-path-glob/
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@rmoff Thanks for that example, I guess it can also be accomplished with that query. Keep in mind if you have files that you don't want indexed or that aren't necessary, then they shouldn't be sent to Logstash to begin with. No point in having unused data being processed by Logstash or stored by Elasticsearch.
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Thanks for helping make logstash-forwarder better!
Logstash-forwarder is going away and is replaced by https://github.com/elastic/filebeat/. If this is still an issue with filebeat, would you mind opening a ticket there?
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