needParse

Forces messages to pass through configured parser modules.

This parameter applies to imfile: Text File Input Module.

Name:: needParse
Scope:: input
Type:: boolean
Default:: off
Required?:: no
Introduced:: 8.1903.0

Description

By default, read messages are sent to output modules without passing through parsers. Setting needParse to on makes rsyslog apply any defined parser modules to these messages.

Input usage

input(type="imfile"
      File="/var/log/example.log"
      Tag="example"
      needParse="on")

Notes

Legacy documentation used the term binary for the type. It is treated as boolean.

See also

See also imfile: Text File Input Module.

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