Logstash Forwarder forwarding multiple files, ends up jammed together in one single entry

Hi,

I have forwarder monitoring on multiple files.

"files": [
{
"paths": ["/tmp/file1*.log" ],"fields": { "server":"server1" }
}, {
"paths": ["/tmp/file2*.log" ],"fields": { "server":"server2" }
}, {
"paths": ["/tmp/file3*.log" ],"fields": { "server":"server3" }
}
]

In the downstream, the logstash process is running on another server.

My problem is that sometime I can see a single record in elasticsearch contains log contents from the 3 different upstream files.

How is it possible and how to avoid it?

Regards,
Pot

Logstash-forwarder is deprecated. Please use filebeat instead.