Add the "<filter></filter>" only when logfile environment Variable is set #2598
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Summary
This PR fixes the empty (filter)(/filter) when ECS_LOGFILE is not set by ecs-init. This would cause certain environment variables related to agent logging to not have their expected behaviour when the user is not using ECS optimized AMI.
This issue is mentioned in #2591
Problem:
For example,
This error is caused because ecs agent is receiving empty (filter)(/filter) when ECS_LOGFILE is not set by ecs-init.
However, when the below is run, everything is fine.
Implementation details
This PR adds the filter block only when ECS_LOGFILE is present as env var. Otherwise it is not added
Testing
Unit tests cover the changes
Manual test:
Also tested that the /var/log/ecs/ecs-agent.log file also got populated in json format when ECS_LOG_OUTPUT_FORMAT=json is mentioned ecs.config file
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Licensing
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