Log Rotation Removal instead of Compression?

[Eli]

Hi Folks,

I have a use case where I'd really just like to keep my current log file and just get rid of old ones. Right now, when using the "file" output plugin, Fluentd can compress my old logs when a new one is switched to. Can Fluentd do anything else at that point, like move the logs or remove them? Sure I could make an agent for this, but if it's already built into Fluentd, I'd rather not add that extra complexity.

Eli

[Kazuki Ohta]

Eli,

Unfortunately, there're no options to remove old logs. The easier way is having cron like this:

> find /path/to/dir/ -type f -mtime +30 -delete

Or using MongoDB's capped collection.

[Eli]

Thanks, KazukI!