Nagios XI log files growing

[dkstuart23]

We have an instance of Nagios XI running and I have noticed that the log files in nagiosxi/var are growing quite large and do not roll over like I would expect. I have questions: 1) is there somewhere that you set the logging verbosity? 2) is there a way to truncate the log files? 3) is there a place in the system to set the log files accumulate for 'x' days then roll over?
TIA,
Doug

[benjaminsmith]

Hi Doug,

Nagios XI uses logrotate to keep the log files in check and archive them. I suspect the service is not running or there is some kind of permission issue.

You can run logrotate with debug output using the following command to help troubleshoot the issue.

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logrotate -d /etc/logrotate.d/nagiosxi

Also, make sure the corn daemon is running is running.

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systemctl status crond

Good luck, please post any error output for help troubleshooting.
--Benajmin

[dkstuart23]

sorry, forgot to post this sooner. Log rotate was not set up properly. Actually, I think that one of the Nagios log files was put in two places in the config file and that appears to have been what was causing the problem.

[benjaminsmith]

Hi @dkstuart23,

sorry, forgot to post this sooner. Log rotate was not set up properly.

No problem. Glad to hear it's working better now.

--Benjamin