all, I'm new to this site, and Linux. I've just installed fluentd on Linux Mint. I want to use it to tale .evl logs at remote sites (by ip address) on our network, and send an email when a certain phrase appears. I'm reading on how to set up the tail input plugin. However, in the source section of fluent.conf, how do I specify the path for a remote file?
Fluentd as of Aug 2015, doesn't support tailing the remote files (@see in_tail plugin). You probably need to copy the files from remote to local via scp or rsync. Or you can post the data remotely via http (@see in_http plugin)