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How to make sure files containing a particular pair of letters are properly blacklisted?

nls7010
Path Finder

This is what I have started:

[monitor:///web/apps/doms/domains/*/CrewAdminAdapter.log]
index=wlsseappslogs
blacklist = *gc*\.log$
sourcetype = CrewAdminAdapter
crcSalt=

There are logs that look like: cw_nms_msa_ms011_gc060.log I don't want any of the logs that look like this but there are other logs very similar to this that I do want but they don't contain _gc which is our garbage collection file.

How do I keep those files from coming in with my blacklisting?

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ddrillic
Ultra Champion

As we just spoke about in the other thread at Is it possible to use regular expressions and wildcard in the monitoring stanza of inputs.conf?

inputs.conf

Says -

alt text

The syntax is of wildcard and not regex. So, blacklist = *gc*.log should work and not blacklist = *gc*\.log$

You should be abe to validate it using ls *gc*.log.

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adamsaul
Communicator

ddrillic,

The use of regular expressions within a blacklist is allowed.

The use of regular expressions within [monitor://....] is not allowed.

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nls7010
Path Finder

sorry the line is gc.log$

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