Patent ID: 11921602
Assignee: CRIBL, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. A computer node comprising:
one or more processors; and
memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations of an edge agent of an observability pipeline system, the operations comprising:
identifying processes running on the computer node;
identifying files on the computer node that the processes have opened for writing;
accessing log discovery parameters of the observability pipeline system;
selecting a plurality of files from the identified files according to the log discovery parameters;
generating a list of discovered log files, the list of discovered log files comprising a path and a name for each of the plurality of files;
adding the list of discovered log files to a list of monitored log files to be monitored by the observability pipeline system; and

after adding the list of discovered log files to the list of monitored log files, monitoring the plurality of files to generate input for the observability pipeline system.