How to manage log files using logrotate

Logrotate is a Linux utility designed to simplify log management and maintenance within large-scale production environments through a process known as log rotation. It enables system administrators to efficiently collect logs from all of their system components, manage disk space usage, and ensure that valuable log data is not lost due to resource constraints. The tool offers various configuration options for controlling log rotation schedules, compressing files, running scripts for additional processing, modifying permissions, adding timestamps to logs, debugging issues with the utility, and configuring environment resources to log at the appropriate level. By leveraging logrotate in conjunction with a log forwarding service like Datadog Agent, teams can centralize, store, analyze, visualize, and alert on their logs for improved visibility into application errors and performance.