From b62c5ea5bcc9574080913d10ac6a44f62a42bd38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eduardo Silva Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 14:48:06 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] input: tail: document new 'rotate_wait' config property Signed-off-by: Eduardo Silva --- input/tail.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/input/tail.md b/input/tail.md index b7441c879c5..cb44a9942da 100644 --- a/input/tail.md +++ b/input/tail.md @@ -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.