[FLUME-2960] Support Wildcards in directory name in TaildirSource

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.0
• Component/s: Sinks+Sources
• Labels: wildcards
• Assignee: tinawenqiao
• Reporter: tinawenqiao
• Created: 24/Jul/16 09:46
• Updated: 01/Jun/22 15:41

Description

In our log management project, we wan't to track many log files like this:
/app/dir1/log.*
/app/dir2/log.*
...
/app/dirn/log.*
But TaildirSource can't support wildcards in filegroup directory name. The following config is expected:
a1.sources.r1.filegroups.fg = /app/*/log.*

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