Time-based Log Rotation

To rotate logs according to a time schedule:

Create an appender based on RollingFileAppender.
Include a time based rolling policy.

Sample

The following sample rotates logs every day, the smallest time increment in the fileNamePattern element.

<Configuration status="warn" name="MyApp" packages="">
<Appenders>
<RollingFile name="RollingFile" fileName="logs/app.log" filePattern="logs/app-%d{MM-ddyyyy}.log.gz" ignoreExceptions="false">
<PatternLayout>
<Pattern>%d %p %c{1.} [%t] %m%n</Pattern>
</PatternLayout>
<TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy />
</RollingFile>
<Console name="STDOUT" target="SYSTEM_OUT" ignoreExceptions="false">
<PatternLayout pattern="%m%n"/>
</Console>
<Failover name="Failover" primary="RollingFile">
<Failovers>
<AppenderRef ref="Console"/>
</Failovers>
</Failover>
</Appenders>
<Loggers>
<Root level="error">
<AppenderRef ref="RollingFile"/>
</Root>
</Loggers>
</Configuration>

Time-based Log Rotation

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