dspace.log is still used for statistics on dspace 9.2?

[Joshua Kim]

Hi,

We need to manage disk space for dspace log files. I have two questions:

1. dspace.log is still used for statistics on dspace 9.2? Is it OK to compress them?

2. Is there a recommendation on how long the log file should be kept?

[andreas...@unibe.ch]

Hello Josh,

I believe dspace.log is no longer used for statistics. Usage statistics are kept in Solr and PostgreSQL.

By default, log4j2.xml is configured with the INFO level. We reduced this to WARN in our environment, which brings down the log size to 300MB or less per day.

Regarding retention, we usually purge the logs about every other month.

Best,

Andreas

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[Abel Gómez]

Hi Josh,

to confirm what Andreas said, you have the info in this thread (https://groups.google.com/g/dspace-tech/c/lRr1Nj6TLd8/m/ExUdpzXbAwAJ):

DSpace will only use the latest log file at any given time.  This latest log file is just called "dspace.log" and is located in the "log" folder.  Any older logs (usually these have a suffix like "dspace.log-[date]") can be safely compressed/zipped without impacting DSpace's behavior.

There's currently a PR to enable log compression by default when rotating the logs.

https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/12507#event-25709870319

Best regards,

Abel

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