I am working on the filebeat 1.1.1. The following is the snippet of the configuation file. I assume the filebeat reads from the end of the log files as the 'tail_files' is true. But it seems the filebeat doesn't work as I thought. Any idea of this? filebeat: prospectors: - paths: …

Filebeat configuration option 'tail_files'

ruflin (ruflin) May 30, 2016, 8:29am 13

Glad to hear you found the solution yourself.

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Filebeat configuration option 'tail_files'

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