560 - exclude files from tail

[ajohnstone]

560 - exclude files from tail

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Thanks!
I will check it later.

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exclude_path is good because exclude is too confusion name.

[ajohnstone]

Thanks, I've made this change...

Lance N on the group mailing list mentioned that you can use format null using a tag to filter this, however this still means your processing the files and tailing them, at least this is my assumption from what the code I've seen is doing.

In my current example I still think the patch is appropriate to avoid any overhead.
The docker container in my case handles all logging. This means all logs would be duplicated by tailing this particular containers log file.

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I will merge this PR today if there is no any concern from other users.

[tagomoris]

LGTM

[ajohnstone]

Need to add some docs for this, but will be good to get merged.

Thanks

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Thanks!

[sonots]

cherry-picked to v0.10