Logging/logrotate settings for management plugin?

[Rainer Plischke]

Hello there,

After enabling the management plugin's HTTP Request Logging, the log folder is getting filled with hourly log files like "access.log.2022_11_30_15". Being on Ubuntu/Debian the standard log files are being rotated with logrotate; but I did not find a way to use logrotate with the access logs. Version is 3.11.0.

Writing a special cleanup script is an option, but I would like to use standard means for log rotation, so I am wondering if there are any additional logging settings for the management plugin (e.g. to prevent automatic logging) or a way to use logrotate.

Thanks!
Rainer

[Luke Bakken]

Hi Rainer,

You'll want to configure logrotate to rotate those files. I just checked the RabbitMQ source and rotation of the HTTP log files is not provided at this time.

This seems to be a good document for configuring logrotate -

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-manage-logfiles-with-logrotate-on-ubuntu-20-04

Thanks,

Luke

[Rainer Plischke]

Thanks for your feedback. I tried logrotate before, but was (and still am) not able to get it working on these files though. I have tried several variations of

/var/log/rabbitmq/http/access.log {
        hourly
        missingok
        rotate 5
        nocreate
        compress

        delaycompress
        dateext
        dateformat .%Y_%m_%d_%H

        su rabbitmq adm
}

but to no prevail. Using wildcards in the log file name makes everything even worse (compressing already compressed files, etc.).

If the log file would simply be "access.log" without any automatic date added, everything would be fine, but I also could not find any means of disabling this "feature" in the RabbitMQ configuration. It seems that I will have to stick with a manual script for the time being.

Thanks,
Rainer

[Luke Bakken]

Hi Rainier,

Thanks for letting me know what you have tried. I will find time to see if I can figure this out.

Thanks,

Luke