read multiple configs from directory

[sysmonk]

Hi,

Any plans to pull this over to log-courier - elastic/logstash-forwarder#136 ?
Would be great to have ability to load multiple config files based on the server roles.

[driskell]

It's one of the things I want to do, yes. I think there was a PR there but I wasn't sure on its approach.

I was thinking of having a "configs" as well as "files" or something, which lists a set of config files to load. And those config files would simply be JSON arrays (like "files" is) which are added in. I think the PR I saw was merging in "network" too and I didn't think that was straight forward.

If that's around what you are thinking it's on the roadmap.

Jason

[sysmonk]

If you mean that you plan to add something like "configs": [ { "paths": [ "/etc/log-courier.d/*.conf" ] } ] then that's great, but if we need to list all the configs separately - then not really what i want :)

[driskell]

Yeh nobody would want that :-P

It would be like:

"file_configs": [ "/etc/log-courier/conf.d/*.conf" ]

Glob support of course.

[driskell]

I read through elastic/logstash-forwarder#136
I looked at elastic/logstash-forwarder#154 too but I tried a different approach I thought would be better. That is to have a main config file and these additional files just for files configuration and not network.

I got it in while on the train and works pretty good. Feedback welcome :)

Instructions here:
https://github.com/driskell/log-courier/blob/stable/docs/Configuration.md#includes

[sysmonk]

Thanks, looks to be working great!