filestat - not clear how to add multiple patterns in include

[lucian-vanghele]

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receiver/filestats

Describe the issue you're reporting

I'm looking at how to add different paths in the include config key. From what I see the only option is to create new receiver for each path. Is that correct?

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[lucian-vanghele]

one more thing: I enabled file.count metric, it works but there's no attribute/label (I'm using prometheus) to tell me which path is actually about.

[crobert-1]

1. It looks like the only option for including multiple paths is using globbing, otherwise you'd have to define multiple receivers.
2. You have to enable the file.path resource attribute, as referenced in documentation. You can enable by including the following block in your receiver config:

resource_attributes:
  file.path:
    enabled: true

[atoulme]

With @crobert-1 answers you will be ok. Please feel free to file separate enhancements if you like more help. Please close this issue if you are unblocked.

[lucian-vanghele]

1. you mean something like /(etc|var)/.config ...hmm, might work in some cases
2. I already have it, works for other metrics but not for file.count. And btw, what would be the value of file.count for an input value like the one above? One single value but then what will be the file.path value?

[lucian-vanghele]

anyone?

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[atoulme]

No, globbing means: /var/log/*.log https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/glob.7.html
file.count reports the number of files reporting in.

[atoulme]

Closing - feel free to reopen or open new issues as needed.