From 3288c6c6ef3ab51d15e95808cf906553441b12ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luca Belluccini Date: Tue, 5 May 2026 12:48:02 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Warning for network shares --- docs/index.asciidoc | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/index.asciidoc b/docs/index.asciidoc index 159f7d0..431a23e 100644 --- a/docs/index.asciidoc +++ b/docs/index.asciidoc @@ -138,6 +138,9 @@ with e.g. `ls -li`. ==== Reading from remote network volumes +WARNING: The file input does not support reading from network shares. It can work, but +it is not extensively tested. We recommend using Filebeat with `filestream` input. + The file input is not thoroughly tested on remote filesystems such as NFS, Samba, s3fs-fuse, etc, however NFS is occasionally tested. The file size as given by the remote FS client is used to govern how much data to read at any given time to