File output & rotation

Configure file output for air-gapped or offline-first deployments — path, rotation, codec, permissions.

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The file output writes every emitted event as newline-delimited JSON to a configured directory. Use it for air-gapped deployments, offline buffering, development debugging or as a belt-and-braces output alongside Elasticsearch. Configure exactly one of output.file or output.elasticsearch as active in production.

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