Hi, I am monitoring a jboss application with a lot of logfiles. Log4j is taking care of log rotating. Files are rotated when a given size is reached and a suffix is added. In the past I always told filebeat to use *.log, so *.log.1 is out of scope. Is my unerstanding correct, that filebeat will …

Filebeat: anything to know about rotating logfiles?

kumarabhi (Abhishek) August 29, 2019, 6:15pm 2

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