Archiving a directory for sinking to a server

[petermp79]

Can vector agent archive a directory and sink it off to a server using either socket or websocket? Any hints?

Thanks

[StephenWakely]

Do you mean read all the files in a director using the file source and sending the data over a socket sink?

That is possible, but the shape of the data will determine how successful it is. Vector is designed to read log files line by line. If the file is a line delimited log file you should be good, reading a binary file or one with lines that are too long will not work very well.