I'm new to beats. I am having a lot of trouble getting filebeat to ignore old files. I have ignore_older: 48h in my filebeats.yml but it does not seem to be working. Why? My folder contains millions of files and it's important that filebeat doesn't try to work on them all.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? What is wrong with my config? Copy below:
filebeat.inputs:
- type: log
enabled: true
paths:
- /usr/myfolders/log/*/*.log
scan_frequency: 60s
ignore_older: 48h
close_inactive: 72h
compression_level: 0
close_renamed: true
close_removed: true
filebeat.config.modules:
path: ${path.config}/modules.d/*.yml
reload.enabled: false
setup.template.settings:
index.number_of_shards: 3
logging.to_syslog: true
output.logstash:
hosts: ["10.10.10.10:5044"]
processors:
- add_host_metadata: ~
- add_cloud_metadata: ~
Any tips for a beats rookie would be appreciated!