Deployment Architecture

How to differ input files in universal forwarder

mkrauss1
Explorer

I'm using the universal forwarder, assume i have following log files:

bar-20170728.log
and

bar-20170728-foo.log

How would i setup inputs.conf to differ between the above logs.
Thats because i want to give them a different index and sourcetype.

Thx

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sbbadri
Motivator

[monitor:///path/bar-*.log]
disabled=false
index=a
sourcetype=a
whitelist=bar\-\d+\.log$

[monitor:///path/bar-*.log]
disabled=false
index=b
sourcetype=b
whitelist=bar\-\d+\-foo\.log$

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mkrauss1
Explorer

Thank you

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