The A&E Report Sink monitors an event flow and will output events to a text file report when it detects a “start message”, and will continue until it detects an “end message”.

• Write access to file-system and sufficient storage to record reports.

• Report start event message: Regular expression to identify start of a report event. NOTE: this message will be included in the report.
• Report end event message:Regular expression to identify end of a report event. NOTE this message won't be included in the report.
• Report length: Max number of events to record in a report. Safety net in case end of report message is not recorded.
• Report output location: Report output location on the file system.

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