diff --git a/docs/content/Firehose.md b/docs/content/Firehose.md
index 065ba2472c1..f2c5d9cfa93 100644
--- a/docs/content/Firehose.md
+++ b/docs/content/Firehose.md
@@ -40,6 +40,36 @@ See [Examples](Examples.html). This firehose creates a stream of random numbers.
 
 This firehose ingests events from a define rabbit-mq queue.
 
+#### LocalFirehose
+
+This Firehose can be used to read the data from files on local disk.
+It can be used for POCs to ingest data on disk.
+A sample local firehose spec is shown below:
+
+```json
+{
+    "type"    : "local",
+    "filter"   : "*.csv",
+    "parser" : {
+      "timestampSpec": {
+        "column": "mytimestamp",
+        "format": "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"
+      },
+      "data": {
+        "format": "csv",
+        "columns": [...],
+        "dimensions": [...]
+      }
+    }
+}
+```
+
+|property|description|required?|
+|--------|-----------|---------|
+|type|This should be "local".|yes|
+|filter|A wildcard filter for files. See [here](http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-io/apidocs/org/apache/commons/io/filefilter/WildcardFileFilter.html) for more information.|yes|
+|data|A data spec similar to what is used for batch ingestion.|yes|
+
 #### IngestSegmentFirehose
 
 This Firehose can be used to read the data from existing druid segments.
@@ -63,11 +93,6 @@ A sample ingest firehose spec is shown below -
 |metrics|The list of metrics to select. If left empty, no metrics are returned. If left null or not defined, all metrics are selected.|no|
 |filter| See [Filters](Filters.html)|yes|
 
-
-
-
-
-
 Parsing Data
 ------------
 
diff --git a/indexing-service/src/main/java/io/druid/guice/IndexingServiceTaskLogsModule.java b/indexing-service/src/main/java/io/druid/guice/IndexingServiceTaskLogsModule.java
index 33452d0dfd9..69c5f4b99ba 100644
--- a/indexing-service/src/main/java/io/druid/guice/IndexingServiceTaskLogsModule.java
+++ b/indexing-service/src/main/java/io/druid/guice/IndexingServiceTaskLogsModule.java
@@ -37,13 +37,13 @@ public class IndexingServiceTaskLogsModule implements Module
   public void configure(Binder binder)
   {
     PolyBind.createChoice(binder, "druid.indexer.logs.type", Key.get(TaskLogs.class), Key.get(FileTaskLogs.class));
+    JsonConfigProvider.bind(binder, "druid.indexer.logs", FileTaskLogsConfig.class);
 
     final MapBinder<String, TaskLogs> taskLogBinder = Binders.taskLogsBinder(binder);
     taskLogBinder.addBinding("noop").to(NoopTaskLogs.class).in(LazySingleton.class);
     taskLogBinder.addBinding("file").to(FileTaskLogs.class).in(LazySingleton.class);
     binder.bind(NoopTaskLogs.class).in(LazySingleton.class);
     binder.bind(FileTaskLogs.class).in(LazySingleton.class);
-    JsonConfigProvider.bind(binder, "druid.indexer.logs", FileTaskLogsConfig.class);
 
     binder.bind(TaskLogPusher.class).to(TaskLogs.class);
   }
diff --git a/indexing-service/src/main/java/io/druid/indexing/common/config/FileTaskLogsConfig.java b/indexing-service/src/main/java/io/druid/indexing/common/config/FileTaskLogsConfig.java
index d1add268faa..cc96ad9ae23 100644
--- a/indexing-service/src/main/java/io/druid/indexing/common/config/FileTaskLogsConfig.java
+++ b/indexing-service/src/main/java/io/druid/indexing/common/config/FileTaskLogsConfig.java
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ public class FileTaskLogsConfig
   @NotNull
   private File directory = new File("log");
 
+  public FileTaskLogsConfig()
+  {
+  }
+
   public FileTaskLogsConfig(File directory)
   {
     this.directory = directory;
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/io/druid/segment/realtime/firehose/LocalFirehoseFactory.java b/server/src/main/java/io/druid/segment/realtime/firehose/LocalFirehoseFactory.java
index 859b73348ab..dca9f440bb3 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/io/druid/segment/realtime/firehose/LocalFirehoseFactory.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/io/druid/segment/realtime/firehose/LocalFirehoseFactory.java
@@ -24,17 +24,19 @@ import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
 import com.google.api.client.repackaged.com.google.common.base.Throwables;
 import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
 import com.metamx.common.ISE;
+import com.metamx.emitter.EmittingLogger;
 import io.druid.data.input.Firehose;
 import io.druid.data.input.FirehoseFactory;
 import io.druid.data.input.impl.FileIteratingFirehose;
 import io.druid.data.input.impl.StringInputRowParser;
 import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
 import org.apache.commons.io.LineIterator;
+import org.apache.commons.io.filefilter.TrueFileFilter;
+import org.apache.commons.io.filefilter.WildcardFileFilter;
 
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FilenameFilter;
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.LinkedList;
 
@@ -42,6 +44,8 @@ import java.util.LinkedList;
  */
 public class LocalFirehoseFactory implements FirehoseFactory<StringInputRowParser>
 {
+  private static final EmittingLogger log = new EmittingLogger(LocalFirehoseFactory.class);
+
   private final File baseDir;
   private final String filter;
   private final StringInputRowParser parser;
@@ -79,26 +83,22 @@ public class LocalFirehoseFactory implements FirehoseFactory<StringInputRowParse
   @Override
   public Firehose connect(StringInputRowParser firehoseParser) throws IOException
   {
-    File[] foundFiles = baseDir.listFiles(
-        new FilenameFilter()
-        {
-          @Override
-          public boolean accept(File file, String name)
-          {
-            return name.contains(filter);
-          }
-        }
+    log.info("Searching for all [%s] in [%s]", filter, baseDir.getAbsoluteFile());
+
+    Collection<File> foundFiles = FileUtils.listFiles(
+        baseDir.getAbsoluteFile(),
+        new WildcardFileFilter(filter),
+        TrueFileFilter.INSTANCE
     );
 
-    if (foundFiles == null || foundFiles.length == 0) {
+    if (foundFiles == null || foundFiles.isEmpty()) {
       throw new ISE("Found no files to ingest! Check your schema.");
     }
 
-    final LinkedList<File> files = Lists.<File>newLinkedList(
-        Arrays.asList(foundFiles)
+    final LinkedList<File> files = Lists.newLinkedList(
+        foundFiles
     );
 
-
     return new FileIteratingFirehose(
         new Iterator<LineIterator>()
         {