trimmin the log.

benhank · Post by **benhank** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 3:24 pm

is there a way to have nagios limit the size of its log files?

slansing · Post by **slansing** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 4:11 pm

The Nagios system automatically archives the logs and it needs them in that archive for various reports. So it is not really recommended to fiddle around with changing or limiting the Nagios system's log's.

benhank · Post by **benhank** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 4:17 pm

I was thinking more of the event logs. We once screwed up notifications and ended up with a 20gig log file ...4 of them

mguthrie · Post by **mguthrie** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 4:37 pm

You can't really limit the log size, just the frequency of the rotation, which is in the main nagios.cfg file. You can however turn off some of the logging features so that less data gets logged. This will actually help performance if you don't need the data.

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log_event_handlers=0
log_notifications=0
log_passive_checks=0
log_service_retries=0
log_host_retries=0

benhank · Post by **benhank** » Fri Oct 12, 2012 9:10 am

excellent! that's just what I needed!

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