Allow time-macros in file definitions
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Aaron Mildenstein February 6, 2015 at 11:18 PM
This does work. See the documentation at http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/logstash/current/configuration.html#_sprintf_format
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Created October 30, 2013 at 5:56 PM
Updated February 6, 2015 at 11:18 PM
Resolved February 6, 2015 at 11:18 PM
Consider allowing date format macros to be used in file definitions. This is particularly handy if an input file is generated with a YYYYMMDD date component in the filename. A wildcard-input is not ideal in this case due to potentially large numbers of historical files in a given directory. Additionally, Windows prevents deletion of files that LogStash is reading which makes log purging difficult.
Example of how this might look: