Sidecar not receiving messages

[bobc (bob)]

Hello,
I have graylog installed and getting rsyslog messages ok, but i wanted to add httpd logs, so installed the sidecar on the remote system along with filebeat.
Graylog tells me the sidecar is running, but when i click “show messages” there is nothing.

I’m a bit stumped now, connectivity seems ok (i think), graylog seems to be running as it should, I have disabled tls all round, not sure what to check next.

my sidecar config: (aiming to get all logs under /var/log/httpd) (192.168.0.10 is my graylog server)

# Needed for Graylog
fields_under_root: true
fields.collector_node_id: ${sidecar.nodeName}
fields.gl2_source_collector: ${sidecar.nodeId}

filebeat.inputs:
- input_type: log
  paths:
    - /var/log/httpd
  type: log
output.logstash:
   hosts: ["192.168.0.10:5044"]
path:
  data: /var/lib/graylog-sidecar/collectors/filebeat/data
  logs: /var/lib/graylog-sidecar/collectors/filebeat/log

if i go to ‘sidecars’ and click the ‘name’ i see a list of logs i would like sent, but just can’t work out why they are not being sent. any help getting them would be greatly appreciated.

[bobc (bob)]

Typically after ages of trying to get this working i found the error 2 minutes after posting the question…

in case it helps anyone else, wht i needed to do there was change the path from:

paths:
- /var/log/httpd

to

paths:
- “/var/log/httpd/*”

I hope it helps someone.