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Subject: [jira] [Commented] (NIFI-1170) TailFile "File to Tail" property
 should support Wildcards
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ASF GitHub Bot commented on NIFI-1170:
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Github user pvillard31 commented on the issue:

    https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/980
  
    FYI: this is not ready for review. After a talk with @trixpan, I'll put some additional work into it. I'll let you know when I think this is ready to take into account the use case described in the JIRA.


> TailFile "File to Tail" property should support Wildcards
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: NIFI-1170
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-1170
>             Project: Apache NiFi
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Core Framework
>    Affects Versions: 0.4.0
>            Reporter: Andre
>
> Because of challenges around log rotation of high volume syslog and app producers, it is customary to logging platform developers to promote file variables based file names such as DynaFiles (rsyslog), Macros(syslog-ng)as alternatives to getting SIGHUPs being sent to the syslog daemon upon every file rotation.
> (To certain extent, used even NiFi's has similar patterns, like for example, when one uses Expression Language to set PutHDFS destination file).
> The current TailFile strategy suggests rotation patterns like:
> {code}
> log_folder/app.log
> log_folder/app.log.1
> log_folder/app.log.2
> log_folder/app.log.3
> {code}
> It is possible to fool the system to accept wildcards by simply using a strategy like:
> {code}
> log_folder/test1
> log_folder/server1
> log_folder/server2
> log_folder/server3
> {code}
> And configure *Rolling Filename Pattern* to * but it feels like a hack, rather than catering for an ever increasingly prevalent use case (DynaFile/macros/etc).
> It would be great if instead, TailFile had the ability to use wildcards on File to Tail property


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