Limit NGINX log size

[J Carter]

Hello,

On Sat, 27 Jan 2024 15:55:42 +0530
Rakshith Kumar <rakshith.2302 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Team,
> 
> I would like to know how to limit the NGINX limit size.
> We would like to set size limit for Nginx log files on App Volumes Manager
> since it consume disk space over time. Can we add any parameters to
> nginx.conf to limit or rotate the logs.
> 
> Location: ..\Program Files (x86)\CloudVolumes\Manager\nginx\logs
> 
> Ex: error_https.log, error.log, access.log files.
> 
> Regards,
> Rakshith

Nginx does not have log rotation capabilities built in, nor can you
limit the size of logs. The logrotate utility is used for this task on
unix/unix-like platforms.

The best choice would be to either write your own utility to do the
rotation, or use a premade windows native utility.

Something like this powershell clone of logrotate might work well:

https://github.com/theohbrothers/Log-Rotate

It's necessary for nginx to reopen the logs post rotation, on Windows I
believe you'll need to use the CLI for that '<nginx-exe-here> -s
reopen' - or restart the service if you have it running as a service.