S3-input-plugin; restart logstash on aws_credentials_file update

[jnkroeker (John Kroeker)]

Hey there,

How can I force logstash to restart when my aws_credentials_file is updated?
--config.reload.automatic does not appear to work here as neither the config.yaml or pipelines.yaml files are changing. the aws_credentials_file variable is specified in my pipeline.conf only.

Kindly,

John

[leandrojmp (Leandro Pereira)]

It won't work like that, the auto reload will only trigger when you edit the pipelines config files or the pipelines.yml file, editing any other file will not trigger a reload.

If you want to reload your pipeline when you change the aws_credentials_file you will also need to edit the pipeline configuration that makes reference to this file, any change is enough to trigger a reload.

[Badger]

You will need to do this externally to logstash. Note that updating pipelines.yml may work (I haven't checked for that file but I know appending a blank line is enough of a change to a pipeline configuration to trigger a reload), but if you are scripting this outside of logstash you can also just send it a SIGHUP and leave the configuration alone.