Before this change, the collector relied upon the default behavior to collect audit logs with no provisions to adjust for back pressure introduced by output receivers. This change modifies characteristics of collecting audit sources to improve the use of file handles and reading those logs.

Following KCS   https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7007644 –> we find the diagnostic steps vector 628099 root 21r REG 8,4 209678855 788530460 / var /log/kube-apiserver/audit-2024-07-23T09-32-40.994.log (deleted) vector 628099 root 62r REG 8,4 209706973 788530467 / var /log/kube-apiserver/audit-2024-07-23T09-56-23.287.log (deleted) vector 628099 root 81r REG 8,4 209632943 788530435 / var /log/kube-apiserver/audit-2024-07-23T10-46-19.105.log (deleted) vector 628099 root 104r REG 8,4 209585344 788529311 / var /log/kube-apiserver/audit-2024-07-23T09-50-25.644.log (deleted) vector 628099 root 146r REG 8,4 209634765 788530457 / var /log/kube-apiserver/audit-2024-07-23T10-47-55.907.log (deleted) vector 628099 root 258r REG 8,4 209590488 788530433 / var /log/kube-apiserver/audit-2024-07-23T10-37-54.841.log (deleted) vector 628099 root 260r REG 8,4 209696153 788530439 / var /log/kube-apiserver/audit-2024-07-23T10-12-45.634.log (deleted) vector 628099 root 261r REG 8,4 209607732 788530443 / var 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