Directory wildcards/following | Log collection solutions

#1 phunqe 8 years ago

Hi,

I am evaluating nxlog on Windows but I've run into a snag.

I have logs organized like this:

D:\ServerLogs\2015-07-16\*.log

Where the directory is rotated based on today's date. Now, if I use the recursive parameter set to true for the file watcher, including this

D:\ServerLogs\*.log

works. However, I don't want to include all files dues to size and/or relevance. I only want to include some of them. As far as I can gather, the recursive parameter only works when there's a wildcard on the filename.

What I need is to be able to include the following:

D:\ServerLogs\*\Log1.log

so it follows the directory rotation on that file alone. I can't figure out how to accomplish this with nxlog.

Please advise.

Thank you.

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#2 phunqe 8 years ago

#1 phunqe

Hi, I am evaluating nxlog on Windows but I've run into a snag. I have logs organized like this: D:\ServerLogs\2015-07-16\*.log Where the directory is rotated based on today's date. Now, if I use the recursive parameter set to true for the file watcher, including this D:\ServerLogs\*.log works. However, I don't want to include all files dues to size and/or relevance. I only want to include some of them. As far as I can gather, the recursive parameter only works when there's a wildcard on the filename. What I need is to be able to include the following: D:\ServerLogs\*\Log1.log so it follows the directory rotation on that file alone. I can't figure out how to accomplish this with nxlog. Please advise. Thank you.

While continuing the evaluation I find that I could theoretically check file_name() to see if it includes the files I want to log (drop() otherwise) and then do a recursive watch on *.log in the top directory.

Although this might fall in the "ugly hack" category, since certain non wanted logs can reach 1Gb+ and I don't know how nxlog likes that in terms of resource usage etc :)