Support for File Input (in_tail)

[chamilad]

I could not find any documentation on how to read a log file like how fluentD does to output to elasticsearch on fluent-bit. In my case, there's already a stdout that I'm processing using fluentD (in Kubernetes). I'm trying to read some additional log files inside a pod using a pod volume.

Is this feature supported? Is it been targeted for a release in the near future?

[edsiper]

in_tail plugin it's in work in process, as well a plugin to gather Kubernetes metadata, it should be ready in a couple of weeks.

[chamilad]

Thanks @edsiper ! Looking forward to test it.

[edsiper]

in_tail plugin code already merged in Master:

https://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit/tree/master/plugins/in_tail

Documentation here:

https://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit-docs/blob/master/input/tail.md

pending feature on in_tail is to handle rotated files (to be implemented shortly)

[edsiper]

FYI: file rotation was added last week.

[mitchhh22]

Any idea when kubernetes metadata support will be available?

[edsiper]

@mitchhh22 that's coming once #157 is ready (no ETA at the moment but a priority).

Would you please request your interest into that feature on #157 ?

thanks.