How do I set up the log generated in the Bamboo install directory to rotate?

[David Corley]

Bamboo writes a single log to <BAMBOOINSTALL>/logs/bamboo.log and this can become extremely large for a long-running, busy instance.

I'd like to be able to rotate the log, so that at the end of every day, the log content for that day is spun off into its own date-stamped log.

So instead of:

<BAMBOOINSTALL>/logs/bamboo.log

I could have logs in the format "bamboo.YYYY-MM-DD.log" like:

<BAMBOOINSTALL>/logs/bamboo.2012-03-15.log
<BAMBOOINSTALL>/logs/bamboo.2012-03-16.log
<BAMBOOINSTALL>/logs/bamboo.2012-03-17.log

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Modify the log4j.properties file under Bamboo/webapp/WEB-INF/classes folder to use DailyRollingFileAppender.

[David Corley]

Hey Jobin,
That appears to be for the <BAMBOOHOME>/logs/atlassian-bamboo.log.x logs.

I'm specifically looking for <BAMBOOINSTALL>/log/bamboo.log. I've got a feeling it's something I need to tweak in wrapper.conf. I'll check the Tanuki Wrapper docs. I need to modify the following section:

#********************************************************************
# Wrapper Logging Properties
#********************************************************************

wrapper.console.format=PM
wrapper.console.loglevel=INFO
wrapper.logfile=../logs/bamboo.log
wrapper.logfile.format=LPTM
wrapper.logfile.loglevel=INFO
wrapper.logfile.maxsize=10m
wrapper.logfile.maxfiles=10
wrapper.syslog.loglevel=NONE

[Przemek Bruski]

IIRC, one of the patched jar files you got will change the log level to DEBUG.

[David Corley]

I hope so! We restarted yesterday, and we've already got a 1.8GB bamboo.log!
Is there anything that can be done to reduce this ahead of upgrading to the next release?

[Przemek Bruski]

BTW, I think I know which messages you're talking about in your specific case. There will be considerably less stuff logged on your instance with the next release.

[David Corley]

Seems to be controlled by this property that needs to be set in wrapper.conf:

http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.com/doc/english/prop-logfile-rollmode.html

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Cool. Let us know if it worked.

[David Corley]

It didn't work.
<BAMBOOINSTALL>/log/bamboo.sh over-rides the log settings in wrapper.conf in the following line:

        $RUNNER "nohup sh -c \"cd $BAMBOO_INSTALL && exec $RUN_CMD 2>&1\" >$BAMBOO_LOG_FILE & umask 022 ; echo \$! > $BAMBOO_PID"

, where BAMBOO_LOG_FILE is defined earlier in the shell script as:

BAMBOO_LOG_FILE=${BAMBOO_LOG_FILE:-$BAMBOO_INSTALL/logs/bamboo.log}

I guess I can hack bamboo.sh to include some form of timestamp, but it this will only ensure that a rollover occurs when Bamboo is restarted, and not every day as desired. Bummer

[David Corley]

Improvement request created here:
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BAM-11246