Filebeat exclude line not working :(

[robscott27]

I ran into this same issue last week and never got a response, but I did find a work around. It doesn't hold through package updates though since the files get overwritten. Not sure if this will help you, but here's the topic I opened:

Exclude_lines regex isn't working

I'm trying to exclude lines from apache log that contain /server-status?auto= within the line. It's a standard apache combined log file. exclude_lines expressions I've tried: ['(?i:/server-status?auto=)'] ['.server-status.'] ['GET /server-status'] as well as a few other iterations I can't remember along the way. I even tried ['.'] and ['*'] in order to trigger excluding EVERYTHING in the log just to make sure it was actually processing but neither of those had any effect and the logs still…