Make enable_stat_watcher configurable (#839)

* make enable_stat_watcher configurable

Author: hvaghani221

helm-chart/splunk-connect-for-kubernetes/charts/splunk-kubernetes-logging/templates/configMap.yaml

@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ data:
  pos_file {{ .Values.containers.path }}/splunk-fluentd-containers.log.pos
  path_key source
  read_from_head true
+ enable_stat_watcher {{ .Values.containers.enableStatWatcher }}
  refresh_interval {{ .Values.containers.refreshInterval | default 60 }}
  <parse>
  {{- if eq .Values.containers.logFormatType "cri" }}

helm-chart/splunk-connect-for-kubernetes/charts/splunk-kubernetes-logging/values.yaml

@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ containers:
  removeBlankEvents: true
  # Boolean if true, uses local time. UTC. Otherwise, UTC is used
  localTime: false
+ # Boolean to whether enables the additional inotify-based watcher.
+ # Setting this parameter to false will disable the inotify events and use only timer watcher for file tailing.
+ enableStatWatcher: true
 
 # Directory where to read journald logs (docker daemon logs, kubelet logs, and any other specified service logs).
 # Journald will use `/var/log/journal` automagically if the directory exists. For example on OpenShift this 

helm-chart/splunk-connect-for-kubernetes/values.yaml

@@ -117,6 +117,9 @@ splunk-kubernetes-logging:
  removeBlankEvents: true
  # Boolean if true, uses local time. UTC. Otherwise, UTC is used
  localTime: false
+ # Boolean to whether enables the additional inotify-based watcher.
+ # Setting this parameter to false will disable the inotify events and use only timer watcher for file tailing.
+ enableStatWatcher: true
 
  # Enriches log record with kubernetes data
  k8sMetadata:

manifests/splunk-kubernetes-logging/configMap.yaml

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ data:
  pos_file /var/log/splunk-fluentd-containers.log.pos
  path_key source
  read_from_head true
+ enable_stat_watcher true
  refresh_interval 60
  <parse>
  @type json