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my worry is that where it is now will not be part of people's log rotate and hence eat up memory.

have the installer add a file to /etc/logrotate.d/ called toplog

contents:

/usr/bin/toplog/logs/logstash-forwarder.log {
    daily
    rotate 5
    copytruncate
    delaycompress
    compress
    notifempty
    missingok
}

Create packages for Windows and OSX servers & add to installer.

Right now you have to know to use -a if you want to add to an existing stream, which results in first time users creating a lot of streams if they mess up the config.

The installer should see see that the user already has a stream and list them at the top of the config list and ask them if they want to create a new stream or use an existing stream.

Should be able to update auth-token. Useful for setting up multiple forwarders while also being forgetful.

Also could just display the auth token from the installers config in the console.

Allow -a argument to add multiple files to a stream

Adding spaces in stream names in the installer seems to results in only first word being created as the stream name

A few things:

• Apparently we should be installing in /usr/local/ not /usr/bin
• pick up on streams that exist all teh time (no need for -a) and add them to a list the user sees and can select from (sort of "we noticed you already have streams a, b, c, would you like to use one of them`)
• check if configs already exist on server and compare against users streams. If no match, ask the user; "We detect outdated configs on this server, would you like us to clean them out for you (recommended)?"

doesn't work with app servers that aren't https (dev, staging)

#9 for rpm

needed to resolve running on directories and inactive>24hr harvester timeouts

compile forwarder as a windows package.

notes on iis file types:
{
"network": {
"servers": [ "[ServerIP]" ],
"ssl ca": "[location of cert from logstash server]",
"timeout": 300
},
"files": [
{
"type": [ "iis" ],
"paths": [
"[Log File Location]" ],
"dead time": "24h"
}
]
}

Need the ability to modify, delete and add streams to an already installed forwarder.

github repo: "You can also read an entire directory of JSON configs by specifying a directory instead of a file with the -config option."