Collector Helm chart: File collector never collects any logs

[agronholm]

The default configuration, when log collection is enabled, never collects any logs because the include/exclude paths are wrong. The host file system (where the logs are) is mounted at /hostfs, so these paths also need to start with that, otherwise nothing is ever collected.

[TylerHelmuth]

@agronholm the preset works fine for me to collect logs from /var/log/pods/*/*/*.log. Can you describe more about your setup.

[agronholm]

I see now what the issue is. The logsCollection.enabled: true preset is what adds the correct mount for /var/log/pods. I could not use the preset because I had JSON logs that needed to be parsed, and there is no way to add your own configuration on top of the default filelog configuration, so only way to accomplish that was to disable the preset and manually configure the filelog receiver by copying its configuration from the preset to my values.yaml and adding the appropriate operators. That volume mount was the missing piece then.

[TylerHelmuth]

@agronholm you should be able to add/update the filelogreceiver configuration created by the preset, you only can't remove content. Any configuration you add to .Values.config will be applied on top of the preset configuration. You would still have to add the volume mount yourself.