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In my web analytics, I am logging the data in plain text file. I want to rotate the log on a daily basis because its logging too much data. Currently I am using bunyan to rotate the logs.
Problem I am facing
It is rotating the file correctly, but rotated log file are in the name log.0, log.1, etc. I want the file name to be log.05-08-2013, log.04-08-2013
I can't edit the source of the bunyanpackage because we are installing the modules using package.json via NPM.
So my question is - Is there any other log rotation in Node.js that meets my requirement?
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In information technology, log rotation is an automated process used in system administration in which log files are compressed, moved (archived), renamed or deleted once they are too old or too big (there can be other metrics that can apply here).
If you want to force Logrotate to rotate the log file when it otherwise would not have, use the --force flag: logrotate /home/sammy/logrotate. conf --state /home/sammy/logrotate-state --verbose --force.
To verify if a particular log is indeed rotating or not and to check the last date and time of its rotation, check the /var/lib/logrotate/status file. This is a neatly formatted file that contains the log file name and the date on which it was last rotated. You'll find this file as /var/lib/logrotate.
Winston does support log rotation using a date in the file name. Take a look at this pull request which adds the feature and was merged four months ago. Unfortunately the documentation isn't listed on the site, but there is another pull request pending to fix that. Based on that documentation, and the tests for the log rotation features, you should be able to just add it as a new Transport to enable the log rotation functionality. Something like the following:
winston.add(winston.transports.DailyRotateFile, { filename: './logs/my.log', datePattern: '.dd-MM-yyyy' }); If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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