Exclude Directorys in Filebeat

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I need harvest all log files in an directory and the subdirectories and exclude the backup directories that are in the same location.
e. g.
/foo/bar/service1/.log
/foo/bar/service1.backup/.log
/foo/bar/service2/.log
/foo/bar/service2.backup/.log

is there a possibility to exclude all the directories with the ending .backup and their subdirectories from harvesting.

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I think you may find an answer in this thread: How to exclude a sub directory and all of it's files

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I tried this as

 exclude_files:
    - '^/foo/bar/*.backup/'

without any success

4

I'm afraid this is not a valid regular expression. Please try to use sth like this:

 '^\/foo\/bar\/.+(.backup)\/.+'

also - you can use this page to figure out a proper regular expression: https://regex101.com/

5

Thank you, that worked. And the link will come in handy.

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