File type

The file type is used to retrieve data from any text file. One string in a file is considered to be one event. String delimiters: \n for Linux and \r\n for Windows. This type of connector is available for Linux Agents.

Available settings:

Basic settings tab:
- Name (required)—a unique name for this type of resource. Must contain from 1 to 128 Unicode characters.
- Tenant (required)—name of the tenant that owns the resource.
- Type (required)—connector type.
- URL (required)—full path to the file that you need to interact with. For example, /var/log/*som?[1-9].log.
  File and folder mask templates
  Masks:
  - '*'—matches any sequence of characters.
  - '[' [ '^' ] { range of characters } ']'—class of characters (should not be left blank).
  - c—matches the c character (c != '*', '?', '\\', '[').
  - '\\' c—matches the c character.
  Ranges of characters:
  - c—matches the c character (c != '\\', '-', ']').
  - '\\' c—matches the c character.
  - lo '-' hi—matches the c character for lo <= c <= hi.
  Examples:
  - /var/log/*som?[1-9].log
  - /mnt/dns_logs/*/dns.log
  - /mnt/proxy/access*.log
  Limitations when using prefixes in file paths
  Prefixes that cannot be used when specifying paths to files:
  - /*
  - /bin
  - /boot
  - /dev
  - /etc
  - /home
  - /lib
  - /lib64
  - /proc
  - /root
  - /run
  - /sys
  - /tmp
  - /usr/*
  - /usr/bin/
  - /usr/local/*
  - /usr/local/sbin/
  - /usr/local/bin/
  - /usr/sbin/
  - /usr/lib/
  - /usr/lib64/
  - /var/*
  - /var/lib/
  - /var/run/
  - /opt/kaspersky/kuma/
  Files are available at the following paths:
  - /opt/kaspersky/kuma/clickhouse/logs/
  - /opt/kaspersky/kuma/mongodb/log/
  - /opt/kaspersky/kuma/victoria-metrics/log/
Advanced settings tab:
- Character encoding setting specifies character encoding. The default value is UTF-8.
- Debug—a drop-down list where you can specify whether resource logging should be enabled. By default it is Disabled.

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