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monitor blacklist Question

rameshlpatel
Communicator

Hi,

I have log file with name of erlDirService_log.log and erlDirService_error.log.

I want to put this in blacklist in monitor stanza(inputs.conf).

So How should I do this ?

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Ayn
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[monitor:///your/path]
blacklist = erlDirService_log\.log|erlDirService_error\.log
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Ayn
Legend

Yes and no - you can definitely do wildcarding, but it needs to be in regex syntax. Like erlDirService.*\.log. But if you're doing this in a production environment and don't really know what you're doing, I would suggest you to read up on how this works.

rameshlpatel
Communicator

Can we make this in single like (Just example, dont know in splunk)

blacklist = erlDirService*.log

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rameshlpatel
Communicator

I read the doc but its uncleared. I have to put this directly on production so i didnt try. I want to sure at first time.

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Ayn
Legend

What did you try that didn't work? What in the docs is unclear?

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