{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fluent/fluentd/issues/681","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fluent/fluentd/issues/681/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fluent/fluentd/issues/681/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fluent/fluentd/issues/681/events","html_url":"https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/issues/681","id":110903045,"number":681,"title":"The use of exclude_path in in_tail plugin？","user":{"login":"elain","id":3030333,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3030333?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/elain","html_url":"https://github.com/elain","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/elain/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/elain/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/elain/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/elain/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/elain/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/elain/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/elain/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/elain/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/elain/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-10-12T03:21:43Z","updated_at":"2015-10-12T03:21:43Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Official documents are as follows:\r\nhttp://docs.fluentd.org/articles/in_tail\r\n##########################\r\nexclude_path\r\n\r\nThe paths to exclude the files from watcher list. For example, if you want to remove compressed files, you can use following pattern.\r\n\r\npath /path/to/*\r\nexclude_path [\"/path/to/*.gz\", \"/path/to/*.zip\"]\r\n###########################\r\n\r\nmy config\r\n############################\r\npath /home/work/logs/nginx/*.log\r\nexclude_path [\"/home/work/logs/nginx/my.xxx.com.log\",\"/home/work/logs/nginx/me.xxx.com.log\"]\r\n############################\r\n\r\nBut after this, I collected the log data id not rule out me.xxx.com.log and my.xxx.com.log. Why?\r\nIs path_exclude only for file types? Or my configuration where there is a problem, please help me"}}