Hello,
i am a Graylog newbie since today and have installed Graylog basically and integrated a host via sidecar. As I understood it, Sidecar itself is not a collector, but accesses other collectors (Logstash, Filebeat etc.).
I wonder why I can set the variable list_log_files in the sidecar config. I specified it with “/var/log” and get the log files including size and last modification date in the graylog frontend. What is the use of this information if Sidecar itself is not a collector and I cannot access the log files?
# A list of directories to scan for log files. The sidecar will scan each
# directory for log files and submits them to the server on each update.
#
# Example:
# list_log_files:
# - "/var/log/nginx"
# - "/opt/app/logs"
#
# Default: empty list
list_log_files:
- "/var/log"
Best regards