I suggest filebeat because it the recommended tech now days. The LS file input has not had much attention in a long time. Both LS and Filebeat are OK to read a NFS mount - there some things to be aware of.
Also Jordan wrote this is in an internal memo:
My still-unclear understanding of this problem is follows: Reading and writing from the same file with two different NFS clients is not supported by NFS itself.
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