Hello guys, I have a filebeat.yml that works perfectly sending csv files to logstash, and then logstash to elastic. If I add a new file to any of the folders filebeats starts it's magic. But if I add data to the end of a existing/read file, filebeats reads the hole file from start including new li…

That results in a new inode number for the file, making Logstash believe that the file is new and needs to be read from the top: $ echo 'first line' > testfile $ ls -li testfile 3412319 -rw-r--r-- 1 magnus magnus 11 Jul 10 17:32 testfile $ sed -i '$ a sample_text' testfile $ ls -li testfile 3412320…

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Pedro_Lopes (Pedro Lopes) July 10, 2016, 10:40am 5

Here goes:

sed -i '$ a sample_text' type_one1.csv

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