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Filebeat: Reading the log files remotely

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netaibiswas (Netai Biswas) March 24, 2017, 1:33am 4

Hello, I have tried the same for linux machine, it didnt work. Can you please help me out on this.

Here are my detailed configuration:

input_type: log

Paths that should be crawled and fetched. Glob based paths.

paths:
- \\xx.x.xxx.xxx/home/logs/app.log

Please let me know what I am missing here.

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