Magento Log Rotate with logrotate

Magento Log Rotate with logrotate

Have you ever had your Magento logs get so large you run out of disk quota. Maybe you would like to setup a log rotation for your Magento logs, it only makes sense all other major logs get rotated...right.

Let setup a cron that will rotate your magento logs (exception.log && system.log).

Lets create the logrotate configuration file

note, you will need to set your path to log files

vim magento-logrotate.conf

now add the following to the magento-logrotate.conf file

/path/to/magento/var/log/*log {
 compress
 delaycompress
 dateext
 missingok
 nosharedscripts
 notifempty
 daily
 rotate 14
 prerotate
  /usr/local/bin/ok2rotate $1
 endscript
}

Add a Daily cron to rotate your logs

@daily /usr/sbin/logrotate -f /path/to/magento-logrotate.conf

or

0 0 * * * /usr/sbin/logrotate -f /path/to/magento-logrotate.conf

This will compress the old logs and keep 7 days worth of logs