Could you please update on the following. Regards, Girish From: syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Girish Kumar Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 4:10 PM To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list Subject: [syslog-ng] Collecting messages from text files Hi All, I am using file(filename) option for source of log. The filename is the log generated by my application. The scenario is explained below. Writes to Reads from Application --- ---- >filename-----------> syslog-ng Since the application is continuously writing to file and syslog-ng is reading from the file, is there any chance syslog-ng missing some logs from the file. I am telling in reader writer context I referred following link to understand and implement file(filename) option https://www.balabit.com/sites/default/files/documents/syslog-ng-ose-latest-g... Regards, Girish