Fluentd tail plugin: tail all files in a directory

Question

Fluentd accepts CSV filenames to log. But that too implies a prior knowledge of file-names.

<source>
  type tail
  path /var/log/nginx/*.log
  tag logging
  format /^(?<time>.+) \[(?<level>[^\]]+)\] *(?<message>.*)$/
  time_format %Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S
</source>

Is there an option or a hack to do something logically equivalent to- path /var/log/*.log

Answer 1

Check out the tail_ex plugin. It allows you to use file globbing in the path.