[dev.icinga.com #13361] Rotate Icinga log files on Windows

[icinga-migration]

This issue has been migrated from Redmine: https://dev.icinga.com/issues/13361

Created by gbeutner on 2016-11-30 09:23:19 +00:00

Assignee: (none)
Status: New
Target Version: (none)
Last Update: 2016-11-30 09:23:43 +00:00 (in Redmine)

Backport?: Not yet backported
Include in Changelog: 1

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[icinga-migration]

Updated by gbeutner on 2016-11-30 09:23:43 +00:00

Requested by Emanuel Quass.

[dnsmichi]

• rotation
• file size limit

Maybe inspired by https://github.com/gabime/spdlog

[carraroj]

ref/NC/722507

[julianbrost]

Would logging to Windows Event Log be an alternative to rolling our own log rotation? (see #8710)

[Al2Klimov]

I consider "Prefer feature X or Y?" another construction area than "Does feature X work as expected?".

[phil-or]

Any news on this issue?
We still disabled logging, otherwise the disk space would fill up.

[julianbrost]

Icinga 2.13 started logging to the Windows Event Log by default which handles expiring old messages automatically.

[Al2Klimov]

Windows Event Log

Icinga 2.13 now supports logging to the Windows Event Log. Icinga will now also log messages from the early startup phase to the Windows Event Log. These were previously missing from the log file and you could only see them by manually starting Icinga in the foreground.

This feature is now enabled and replaces the existing mainlog feature logging to a file. When upgrading, the installer will enable the windowseventlog feature and disable the mainlog feature.

– https://icinga.com/docs/icinga-2/latest/doc/16-upgrading-icinga-2/

No mainlog – no mainlog rotation needed.