{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fluent/fluentd/issues/659","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fluent/fluentd/issues/659/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fluent/fluentd/issues/659/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fluent/fluentd/issues/659/events","html_url":"https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/issues/659","id":101857930,"number":659,"title":"Output apache logs to fluentd-ui console","user":{"login":"sachintaware","id":1187801,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1187801?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/sachintaware","html_url":"https://github.com/sachintaware","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sachintaware/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sachintaware/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sachintaware/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sachintaware/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sachintaware/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sachintaware/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sachintaware/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sachintaware/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sachintaware/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2015-08-19T10:26:58Z","updated_at":"2015-09-14T12:07:42Z","closed_at":"2015-09-14T12:07:42Z","body":"I am refering the following docs to configure apache logs on fluentd.But I want to view the logs on fluentd console(like fluentd logs are displayed under log and error log tab ) and not send them to s3 http://docs.fluentd.org/articles/apache-to-s3.\r\nI added the source block\r\n```\r\n<source>\r\n  type tail\r\n  format apache2\r\n  path /var/log/apache2/access.log\r\n  pos_file /var/log/td-agent/apache2.access_log.pos\r\n  tag s3.apache.access\r\n</source>\r\n```\r\nThe docs dont give a description about this line `pos_file /var/log/td-agent/apache2.access_log.pos`.\r\nwhich i guess is the location where the apache logs are written for fluentd to read and fetch them.\r\n\r\nI ran this for test  `sudo ab -n 100 -c 10 http://localhost/`,which logs \r\n```\r\n127.0.0.1 - - [19/Aug/2015:09:34:31 +0000] \"GET / HTTP/1.0\" 200 5922 \"-\" \"ApacheBench/2.3\"\r\n127.0.0.1 - - [19/Aug/2015:09:34:31 +0000] \"GET / HTTP/1.0\" 200 5922 \"-\" \"ApacheBench/2.3\"\r\n::1 - - [19/Aug/2015:09:34:32 +0000] \"OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0\" 200 126 \"-\" \"Apache/2.4.12 (Ubuntu) (internal dummy connection\r\n)\"\r\n::1 - - [19/Aug/2015:09:34:33 +0000] \"OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0\" 200 126 \"-\" \"Apache/2.4.12 (Ubuntu) (internal dummy connection\r\n)\"\r\n::1 - - [19/Aug/2015:09:34:34 +0000] \"OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0\" 200 126 \"-\" \"Apache/2.4.12 (Ubuntu) (internal dummy connection\r\n)\"\r\n::1 - - [19/Aug/2015:09:34:35 +0000] \"OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0\" 200 126 \"-\" \"Apache/2.4.12 (Ubuntu) (internal dummy connection\r\n)\"\r\n::1 - - [19/Aug/2015:09:34:36 +0000] \"OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0\" 200 126 \"-\" \"Apache/2.4.12 (Ubuntu) (internal dummy connection\r\n)\"\r\n::1 - - [19/Aug/2015:09:34:37 +0000] \"OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0\" 200 126 \"-\" \"Apache/2.4.12 (Ubuntu) (internal dummy connection\r\n)\"\r\n::1 - - [19/Aug/2015:09:34:38 +0000] \"OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0\" 200 126 \"-\" \"Apache/2.4.12 (Ubuntu) (internal dummy connection\r\n)\"\r\n```\r\nbut nothing is logged to `apache2.access_log.pos`.It also did not get created at first so I created it manually.\r\n\r\n<b>How can I modify the config file to output logs to the fluentd-ui instead of S3 and reload them after some duration?</b> Is it possible or not in current version?"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fluent/fluentd/issues/comments/140050223","html_url":"https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/issues/659#issuecomment-140050223","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fluent/fluentd/issues/659","id":140050223,"user":{"login":"repeatedly","id":16928,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/16928?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/repeatedly","html_url":"https://github.com/repeatedly","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/repeatedly/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/repeatedly/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/repeatedly/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/repeatedly/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/repeatedly/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/repeatedly/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/repeatedly/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/repeatedly/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/repeatedly/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-09-14T12:07:42Z","updated_at":"2015-09-14T12:07:42Z","body":"Fluentd-ui doesn't have log visualization in the latest release.\r\nIf you want such feature in fluentd-ui, please request it on fluentd-ui repository.\r\n\r\nIn addition, you can use out_stdout plugin instead of s3 plugin to show logs in fluentd logs."}}