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Add recommendation to avoid using symlinks in filebeat documentation #7386

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ppf2 opened this issue Jun 20, 2018 · 1 comment
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Add recommendation to avoid using symlinks in filebeat documentation #7386

ppf2 opened this issue Jun 20, 2018 · 1 comment
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ppf2 commented Jun 20, 2018

It sounds like our general recommendation when dealing with file rotation is to avoid using symlinks. Instead of using a symlink in the prospector path definition, we recommend pointing the harvester to the original file(s) and with the path pattern match the file data is written to and all its rotated files.

It will be helpful to add a note here upfront, esp. since later on the same page, we provide an option for the harvester to handle symlinks - which is disabled by default.

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Closed by #7950

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