Article - CS320496

How to Configure Apache Tomcat Log Rotation for ThingWorx Platform

Modified: 16-Oct-2024   


Applies To

  • ThingWorx Platform 8.1 to 9.6
  • Apache Tomcat
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Linux

Description

  • Logs in <tomcat_home>\logs folder can grow to several GB in size consuming lots of disk space
  • How to rotate Apache Tomcat logs to keep them to a manageable size
  • Tomcat log rollover based on size
  • How to configure rollover of Tomcat logs
  • How to configure log rotation for log files contained in <tomcat_home>\logs (list varies between Windows and Linux):
    • catalina
    • commons-deamon
    • host-manager
    • localhost
    • manager
    • tomcat<8 or 9>-stderr
    • tomcat<8 or 9>-stdout
    • localhost_access_log
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