Commit 10f6da98 authored by Brie Carranza's avatar Brie Carranza Committed by Nick Gaskill

Add notes on which services are managed by logrotate, svlogd, both or neither

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switching logs from JSON to plain text logging, and more.
- [How to parse and analyze JSON logs](troubleshooting/log_parsing.md).
## Log Rotation
The logs for a given service may be managed and rotated by:
- `logrotate`
- `svlogd` (`runit`'s service logging daemon)
- `logrotate` and `svlogd`
- Or not at all
The table below includes information about what is responsible for managing and rotating logs for
the included services. Logs
[managed by `svlogd`](https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/logs.html#runit-logs)
are written to a file called `current`. The `logrotate` service built into GitLab
[manages all logs](https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/logs.html#logrotate)
except those captured by `runit`.
| Log Type | Managed by logrotate | Managed by svlogd/runit |
| ----------------------------------------------- | -------------------- | ----------------------- |
| [Alertmanager Logs](#alertmanager-logs) | N | Y |
| [Crond Logs](#crond-logs) | N | Y |
| [Gitaly](#gitaly-logs) | Y | Y |
| [GitLab Exporter For Omnibus](#gitlab-exporter) | N | Y |
| [GitLab Pages Logs](#pages-logs) | Y | Y |
| GitLab Rails | Y | N |
| [GitLab Shell Logs](#gitlab-shelllog) | Y | N |
| [Grafana Logs](#grafana-logs) | N | Y |
| [LogRotate Logs](#logrotate-logs) | N | Y |
| [Mailroom](#mail_room_jsonlog-default) | Y | Y |
| [NGINX](#nginx-logs) | Y | Y |
| [PostgreSQL Logs](#postgresql-logs) | N | Y |
| [Prometheus Logs](#prometheus-logs) | N | Y |
| [Puma](#puma-logs) | Y | Y |
| [Redis Logs](#redis-logs) | N | Y |
| [Registry Logs](#registry-logs) | N | Y |
| [Workhorse Logs](#workhorse-logs) | Y | Y |
## `production_json.log`
This file lives in `/var/log/gitlab/gitlab-rails/production_json.log` for
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