Questions tagged [log-rotation]
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Rollover logfile on startup and on time and size
Using logback, and its RollingFileAppender, how can I configure a log to roll over on time and size, but also on every application launch?
The following config generates a new log file on each day, and when the previous one gets too big.
However, it…

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How to combine log4j daily log rotation with filesize based rotation and maxbackup?
I want to configure the following things for log4j:
rotate logfile daily
max logfile size 100MB (rotate when the log reaches the limit).
compress daily rotated logfiles
only keep compressed logfiles for 7 days.
log should be written with a certain…

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Python RotatingFileHandler without renaming existing files
In python, the RotatingFileHandler keeps on changing file extensions every time a rotation takes place.
I would really like filenames / filename extensions to be fixed instead - after creation then never change.
Example of how it would work:
Time…

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How to identify all the log files under being created using log4j under /var/log
I am trying to identify and list all the log files which are being created with log4j.
I want to then assert if all these log files have the rotation policies defined in the log4j2.xml files.
What will be the best way to list these files which are…

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CopyTruncate log rotation mechanism is dropping logs
I had implemented a linux based logrotation with copytruncate strategy. Below is the config for same:
/data/app/info.log {
missingok
copytruncate
maxsize 50M
daily
rotate 30
create 644 app app
delaycompress
compress
}
With above config, whenever…

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Docker + Fluentd in K8s for log rotation: Does Docker need to know the existence of Fluentd?
I am trying to understand the interaction between Docker and Fluentd in a K8s cluster. I have seen places where you need to configure Docker to output to a logging driver, and Fluentd can be used as logging driver, like here.
On the other hand, I…

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How to rotate log files that generate with pino-multi-stream?
I am using pino-multi-stream npm package in my node.js project as below:
const fs = require('fs');
const pino = require('pino');
const multistream = require('pino-multi-stream').multistream;
const path = require('path');
const logDirectory =…

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Is there a way to tell ArangoDB to rotate log files
Over a long enough time the Arango log files can grow large. I do not have much access to the systems that will be running Arango, so I am hoping I can have ArangoDB rotate logfiles on some timeframe and keep some number. It looks like the arango…

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What’s Ansible log rotation periodicity?
In ansible.cfg, I use the log_path variable to define where to save Ansible logs.
A log file is generated and filled automatically but log rotation seems ineffective.
I need information about Ansible logs rotation.
When does log rotates - daily,…

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Custom rotator and namer functions not working with RotatingFileHandler logger handler in python?
I have referred below link for using rotator and namer functions, but they are not working(not making any difference)
Link: https://docs.python.org/3/howto/logging-cookbook.html#using-a-rotator-and-namer-to-customize-log-rotation-processing
I want…

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Log-rotate delete original file after compressing
I have following files in my someDir:
blacklistadm.out00009 blacklistadm.out00008 blacklistadm.out00007 blacklistadm.out00010 blacklistadm.out00025
I have following log rotation pattern in /etc/logrotate.d/:
someDir/blacklistadm.out*[0-9]{
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Fluentd logging on kubernetes skips logs on log rotation
Currently, I have the following architecuture in kubernetes:
In a pod, a service and a sidecar container (called logger) is running.
The services writes to a file, the sidecar container reads that file and writes it to stdout.
A fluentd daemonset…

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Akeneo keeps writing a dev.log
I'm using Akeneo 2.1.8, but on my production server it keeps writing log entries to a var/logs/dev.log. These are simple INFO-entries and add +/- 100 MB every day to the log file.
How can I disable the dev.log on production? I cannot seem to find a…

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How to use logrotate to compress files older than 1 day
I've have a list of files below which I wants logrotate to compress if its a day old. So I'm expecting TRACE_03.log, TRACE_07.log, been compressed as it is more than 24 hrs
# ls -ltr
total 2083312
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 198176768 Mar 18 01:30…

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How to rotate logs daily in rabbitmq
I want to rotate rabbitmq logs daily. It is mentioned in the following link that rotation can be configured using following properties.
log.file.rotation.date, log.file.rotation.size, log.file.rotation.count.
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Sainath Batthala
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