Thanks Marius, that seemed to do that trick.

On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 4:34:10 AM UTC-5, Marius Sturm wrote:
>
> Hi Marvin, 
> the tags are used to define which configuration should be applied to a 
> host. So it's up to you to add the tag to the collector_sidecar.yml 
> file. Afterwards it should detect the change in the web interface. If 
> you want to distinguish between the two inputs at search time you can 
> use the filename for it or add a custome field. 
>
> Cheers, 
> Marius 
>
> On 29 November 2016 at 21:01, Marvin Popyk <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > Hello, 
> > 
> > We are testing graylog to see if it fits our needs for a centralized 
> logging 
> > system.  We've installed and setup graylog and we wanted to be able to 
> > import specific log files to graylog.  We read that graylog collector 
> > sidecar is an option.  We have setup a new beats input and tested an 
> apache 
> > collection recommended by the graylog instructions.  That worked like a 
> > charm.  We setup a new collection to import authentication logs 
> > (/var/log/auth.log) but it seems like the host that has sidecar 
> installed is 
> > not getting the updates for the 2nd configuration and is not pushing the 
> > auth log to graylog. 
> > 
> > 1. I looked in /etc/graylog/collector-sidecar/collector_sidecar.yml and 
> i 
> > noticed the tags aren't updated with the new configuration tag 
> > 2. I also looked in 
> /etc/graylog/collector-sidecar/generated/filebeat.yml 
> > and noticed the input_type doesn't match the new configuration file 
> type.  I 
> > changed it to auth instead of log. 
> > 
> > However, if i edit these 2 yml files with the correct information, 
> graylog 
> > with start pulling authentication logs. BUT, it will still say the input 
> > type is LOG instead of AUTH. 
> > 
> > Not sure why the host isn't getting the configuration updates of the 2nd 
> > configuration for the authentication logs.  I've restarted the service 
> and 
> > that didn't work. 
> > 
> > Also, would you recommend using NXLog instead of Beats? 
> > 
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