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Terraform deployment setup for WT prod
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Set journalctl retention policy to reasonable values #10

Closed Xarthisius closed 6 years ago

Xarthisius commented 6 years ago

System logs are growing quickly on worker nodes. We should consider applying some limits for log retention, e.g.:

journalctl --vacuum-size=500M
journalctl --vacuum-time=2d
craig-willis commented 6 years ago

It looks like we could also use journald.conf:

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/journald.conf.html

SystemMaxUse, SystemMaxFiles or MaxFileSec may work.