{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fluent/fluentd/issues/668","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fluent/fluentd/issues/668/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fluent/fluentd/issues/668/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fluent/fluentd/issues/668/events","html_url":"https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/issues/668","id":104675194,"number":668,"title":"Periodic flush on in_tail plugin for multiline format","user":{"login":"Jorge-Rodriguez","id":4486718,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4486718?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Jorge-Rodriguez","html_url":"https://github.com/Jorge-Rodriguez","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Jorge-Rodriguez/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Jorge-Rodriguez/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Jorge-Rodriguez/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Jorge-Rodriguez/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Jorge-Rodriguez/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Jorge-Rodriguez/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Jorge-Rodriguez/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Jorge-Rodriguez/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Jorge-Rodriguez/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":6,"created_at":"2015-09-03T11:58:05Z","updated_at":"2015-11-04T07:35:52Z","closed_at":null,"body":"When using the in_tail plugin with multiline format and format_firstline the plugin will not generate an event until the next first line is detected (expected behaviour as we can't know that the multiline event has ended until the next first line shows up) however, it is reasonable to expect that a multiline event will happen on a short period of time so the event could be flushed on either a new first line or a configurable timeout, this is useful on files with low activity where the next first line can take a long time to appear.\r\n\r\nFeature request:\r\n- Add a parameter to the in_tail plugin to be able to configure the multiline event timeout."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fluent/fluentd/issues/comments/153619109","html_url":"https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/issues/668#issuecomment-153619109","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fluent/fluentd/issues/668","id":153619109,"user":{"login":"kikumoto","id":86998,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/86998?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/kikumoto","html_url":"https://github.com/kikumoto","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kikumoto/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kikumoto/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kikumoto/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kikumoto/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kikumoto/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kikumoto/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kikumoto/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kikumoto/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kikumoto/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-11-04T07:35:52Z","updated_at":"2015-11-04T07:35:52Z","body":"I wrote patches for https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/issues/668 - https://github.com/kikumoto/fluentd/commit/396d5a6bc3daf7739a93778c0671b9854c935ce5 .\r\nThese patches were forked from v0.12 branch.\r\nI was wondering to decide if I should create pull request or not for this issue because I am not sure how to test it."}}