When I was running some test instances on multiple server I encountered a not enough space on some of the locations and as I inspected it was an issue with logger.
I use @Slf4j annotation to log.
Here is my configuration for logging:
# Logging
logging.level.root=INFO
logging.level.web=INFO
logging.logback.rollingpolicy.max-file-size=20MB
logging.file.name=logs/ims-app.log
logging.file.path=logs
logging.logback.rollingpolicy.max-history=7
Recent logs inside the docker:
/logs # ls -lah
total 7M
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Sep 22 17:40 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.0K Sep 22 11:26 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 543.8K Sep 22 17:41 ims-app.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 507.2K Sep 22 11:52 ims-app.log.2022-09-22.0.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 507.1K Sep 22 12:21 ims-app.log.2022-09-22.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 495.6K Sep 22 16:21 ims-app.log.2022-09-22.10.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 497.5K Sep 22 16:48 ims-app.log.2022-09-22.11.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 495.7K Sep 22 17:14 ims-app.log.2022-09-22.12.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 496.6K Sep 22 17:40 ims-app.log.2022-09-22.13.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 496.2K Sep 22 12:48 ims-app.log.2022-09-22.2.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 499.8K Sep 22 13:15 ims-app.log.2022-09-22.3.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 497.8K Sep 22 13:42 ims-app.log.2022-09-22.4.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 498.6K Sep 22 14:09 ims-app.log.2022-09-22.5.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 499.5K Sep 22 14:36 ims-app.log.2022-09-22.6.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 498.2K Sep 22 15:03 ims-app.log.2022-09-22.7.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 496.7K Sep 22 15:29 ims-app.log.2022-09-22.8.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 496.4K Sep 22 15:56 ims-app.log.2022-09-22.9.gz
After this issue I decided to move to a centralized logging with elk, but this issue will still continue on the java side. How do I limit how many log file for an instance. I still want to save recent logs as files, but in 30 days it exceeded 19GB (on the dev server) any suggestion on this?