[Questions] Log rotation for management http log files

[vicmunoz]

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RabbitMQ version used

4.1.2

Erlang version used

27.3.x

Operating system (distribution) used

Ubuntu

How is RabbitMQ deployed?

Debian package

rabbitmq-diagnostics status output

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Logs from node 1 (with sensitive values edited out)

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rabbitmq.conf

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Steps to deploy RabbitMQ cluster

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Steps to reproduce the behavior in question

Enable Management HTTP logging:
management.http_log_dir = /var/log/rabbitmq

advanced.config

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Kubernetes deployment file

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What problem are you trying to solve?

How should I enable log rotation for http logs (management.http_log_dir = /var/log/rabbitmq) ?

I have plenty of files like /var/log/rabbitmq/access.log.2025_09_08_08

Any idea

[lukebakken]

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Arabbitmq.com+log+rotation

[michaelklishin]

From the RabbitMQ Logging guide:

On Linux, BSD and other UNIX-like systems, `logrotate` is
a widely used log file rotation tool. It is very mature and supports a lot of options.

RabbitMQ Debian and RPM packages will set up logrotate to run weekly on files located
in the default `/var/log/rabbitmq` directory.

Rotation configuration can be found in `/etc/logrotate.d/rabbitmq-server`.