Unable to read custom logs in promtail - kubernetes

Question

I am new to promtail and struggling to understand location from where it picks logs from each pod. I installed loki stack with promtail below are my default scrape_config
scrape_configs:
# See also https://github.com/grafana/loki/blob/master/production/ksonnet/promtail/scrape_config.libsonnet for reference
- job_name: kubernetes-pods
pipeline_stages:
- cri: {}
kubernetes_sd_configs:
- role: pod
relabel_configs:
- source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_controller_name
regex: ([0-9a-z-.]+?)(-[0-9a-f]{8,10})?
action: replace
target_label: __tmp_controller_name
- source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_label_app_kubernetes_io_name
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_label_app
- __tmp_controller_name
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_name
regex: ^;*([^;]+)(;.*)?$
action: replace
target_label: app
- source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_label_app_kubernetes_io_instance
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_label_release
regex: ^;*([^;]+)(;.*)?$
action: replace
target_label: instance
- source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_label_app_kubernetes_io_component
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_label_component
regex: ^;*([^;]+)(;.*)?$
action: replace
target_label: component
- action: replace
source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_node_name
target_label: node_name
- action: replace
source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_namespace
target_label: namespace
- action: replace
replacement: $1
separator: /
source_labels:
- namespace
- app
target_label: job
- action: replace
source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_name
target_label: pod
- action: replace
source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_container_name
target_label: container
- action: replace
replacement: /var/log/pods/*$1/*.log
separator: /
source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_uid
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_container_name
target_label: __path__
- action: replace
regex: true/(.*)
replacement: /var/log/pods/*$1/*.log
separator: /
source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_annotationpresent_kubernetes_io_config_hash
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_annotation_kubernetes_io_config_hash
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_container_name
target_label: __path__
1- I want loki/promtail to pick some other log files but I am not sure on which location should I put these logs so that it is picked up by loki/promtails. I tried following paths but it did work
/app/logs
/var/log/containers
/var/log/pods
/var/log
/app
Look forward to replies. Thanks in advance