You can manage any of the log files yourself. That is, you can delete or archive them as necessary.
CAUTION:
Deleting log files can make it more difficult for support personnel to resolve issues you might encounter.
System logs are managed automatically in these ways:
- Retirement: All log files are periodically added to a compressed file and moved to install_path/hcpcs/retired/. This occurs at least once a day, but can also occur:
- Whenever you run the log_download script.
- Hourly, if the system instance's disk space is more than 60% full.
- At the optimum time for a specific service.
- Rotation: When a log file grows larger than 10MB in size, the system stops writing to that file, renames it, and begins writing to a new file. For example, if the file exampleService.log.0 grows to 10 MB, it is renamed to exampleService.log.1 and the system creates a new file named exampleService.log.0 to write to.
- Removal: When a log file becomes older than 90 days, it is removed. If the system instance's disk space is more than 70% full, log files are deleted when they become older than one day.
- When an optimum number of log files for a specific service is reached, the system can overwrite the oldest file. For example, if a service is limited to 20 log files, when the file exampleService.log.19 is filled, the system overwrites the file named exampleService.log.0.