What’s Ansible log rotation periodicity?

Question

In ansible.cfg, I use the log_path variable to define where to save Ansible logs. A log file is generated and filled automatically but log rotation seems ineffective. I need information about Ansible logs rotation.

When does log rotates - daily, according to file size, … ?
Is it a file rotation or a file content rotation?

After defining log_path in ansible.cfg, I ran Ansible several times for several weeks. The logs are saved but there’s no rotation.

## ansible.cfg
log_path = /my/ansible/log.path

I would have two files:

/my/ansible/log.path contains latest logs
/my/ansible/log.path.0 for example contains oldest logs

but I only have all logs saved in /my/ansible/log.path.

there is no log rotation, not sure why you assumed there is one. — ilias-sp
Thank you. I read this ansible.cfg example but I misunderstood the comment over log_path. — symsymmas
i agree, it does sound misleading the way it was worded. in any case, the official documentation is here in case you want to have a deeper look. — ilias-sp

symsymmas symsymmas · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-27T12:37:45

As written here, there’s no log rotation with Ansible.

# logging is off by default unless this path is defined
# if so defined, consider logrotate
#log_path = /var/log/ansible.log

What’s Ansible log rotation periodicity?

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