I want to use Filebeat to read from a directory to ingest the log files, then to delete (sinkhole) the files once read and ingested into Elasticsearch. Is this achievable with Filebeat?
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Filebeat is not currently able to do that unfortunately.
Logstash can, as mentioned here File input plugin | Logstash Reference [7.14] | Elastic
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