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input: tail: document new 'rotate_wait' config property
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Signed-off-by: Eduardo Silva <[email protected]>
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edsiper committed Dec 8, 2016
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Expand Up @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:
| Path | Pattern specifying a specific log files or multiple ones through the use of common wildcards. |
| Exclude\_Path| Set one or multiple shell patterns separated by commas to exclude files matching a certain criteria, e.g: exclude_path=\*.gz,\*.zip |
| Refresh\_Interval|The interval of refreshing the list of watched files. Default is 60 seconds. |
| Rotate\_Wait | Specify the number of extra seconds to monitor a file once is rotated in case some pending data is flushed. Default is 5 seconds.|
| DB | Specify the database file to keep track of monitored files and offsets. |

Note that if the database parameter _db_ is __not__ specified, by default the plugin will start reading each target file from the beginning.
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