log-rotate.md

title	keywords	description
log-rotate	APISIX API Gateway Plugin Log rotate	This document contains information about the Apache APISIX log-rotate Plugin.

Description

The log-rotate Plugin is used to keep rotating access and error log files in the log directory at regular intervals.

You can configure how often the logs are rotated and how many logs to keep. When the number of logs exceeds, older logs are automatically deleted.

Attributes

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
interval	integer	True	60 * 60	Time in seconds specifying how often to rotate the logs.
max_kept	integer	True	24 * 7	Maximum number of historical logs to keep. If this number is exceeded, older logs are deleted.
enable_compression	boolean	False	false	When set to true, compresses the log file (gzip). Requires tar to be installed.

Enabling the Plugin

To enable the Plugin, add it in your configuration file (conf/config.yaml):

plugins:
    - log-rotate

plugin_attr:
    log-rotate:
        interval: 3600
        max_kept: 168
        enable_compression: false

Example usage

Once you enable the Plugin as shown above, the logs will be stored and rotated based on your configuration.

In the example below the interval is set to 10 and max_kept is set to 10. This will create logs as shown:

ll logs

total 44K
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty    0 Mar 20 20:32 2020-03-20_20-32-40_access.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty 2.4K Mar 20 20:32 2020-03-20_20-32-40_error.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty    0 Mar 20 20:32 2020-03-20_20-32-50_access.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty 2.8K Mar 20 20:32 2020-03-20_20-32-50_error.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty    0 Mar 20 20:32 2020-03-20_20-33-00_access.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty 2.4K Mar 20 20:33 2020-03-20_20-33-00_error.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty    0 Mar 20 20:33 2020-03-20_20-33-10_access.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty 2.4K Mar 20 20:33 2020-03-20_20-33-10_error.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty    0 Mar 20 20:33 2020-03-20_20-33-20_access.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty 2.4K Mar 20 20:33 2020-03-20_20-33-20_error.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty    0 Mar 20 20:33 2020-03-20_20-33-30_access.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty 2.4K Mar 20 20:33 2020-03-20_20-33-30_error.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty    0 Mar 20 20:33 2020-03-20_20-33-40_access.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty 2.8K Mar 20 20:33 2020-03-20_20-33-40_error.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty    0 Mar 20 20:33 2020-03-20_20-33-50_access.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty 2.4K Mar 20 20:33 2020-03-20_20-33-50_error.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty    0 Mar 20 20:33 2020-03-20_20-34-00_access.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty 2.4K Mar 20 20:34 2020-03-20_20-34-00_error.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty    0 Mar 20 20:34 2020-03-20_20-34-10_access.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty 2.4K Mar 20 20:34 2020-03-20_20-34-10_error.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty    0 Mar 20 20:34 access.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty 1.5K Mar 20 21:31 error.log

If you have enabled compression, the logs will be as shown below:

total 10.5K
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty  1.5K Mar 20 20:33 2020-03-20_20-33-50_access.log.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty  1.5K Mar 20 20:33 2020-03-20_20-33-50_error.log.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty  1.5K Mar 20 20:33 2020-03-20_20-34-00_access.log.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty  1.5K Mar 20 20:34 2020-03-20_20-34-00_error.log.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty  1.5K Mar 20 20:34 2020-03-20_20-34-10_access.log.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty  1.5K Mar 20 20:34 2020-03-20_20-34-10_error.log.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty    0 Mar 20 20:34 access.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 resty resty 1.5K Mar 20 21:31 error.log

Disable plugin

To remove the log-rotate Plugin, you can remove it from your configuration file (conf/config.yaml):

plugins:
    # - log-rotate