Logrotate example

ashven288 edited on Nov 21, 2023.

Over time, the Vaultwarden log file can grow to a significant size. Using logrotate, we can periodically rotate logs.

sudo nano /etc/logrotate.d/bitwarden
/var/log/bitwarden/*.log { # Perform logrotation as the bitwarden user and group su bitwarden bitwarden # Rotate daily daily # Rotate when the size is bigger than 5MB size 5M # Compress old log files compress # Keep 4 rotations of log files before removing or mailing to the address specified in a mail directive rotate 4 # Truncate the original log file in place after creating a copy copytruncate # Don't panic if not found missingok # Don't rotate log if file is empty notifempty # Add date instead of number to rotated log file dateext # Date format of dateext dateformat -%Y-%m-%d-%s }

To view a compressed log file without manually decompressing:

zcat logfile.gz zless logfile.gz zgrep -i keyword_search logfile.gz