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Partinder Singh
Partinder Singh

Reputation: 221

Winston file transport Age

Is is possible to set the age of the logfile when using file-transport for winston. Can we set the age/time for the file "server.log" to 24hours, so it get auto deleted after 24hours and a new file with the same name get created, thereby saving memory?

var logger = new (winston.Logger)({
transports: [
    new (winston.transports.Console)(),
    new (winston.transports.File)({ filename: 'logs/server.log',handleExceptions: true }),
    });

Upvotes: 0

Views: 976

Answers (2)

deyhle
deyhle

Reputation: 473

The DailyRotateFile transport will let you set a time when a new log file is created. You can then delete old ones with a cron job.

Upvotes: 1

ItalyPaleAle
ItalyPaleAle

Reputation: 7334

As far as I know, Winston doesn't support that.

These kind of problems are normally solved by rotating your logs (writing to a new file every day, eg: log_2015-02-23.txt, log_2015-02-24.txt, etc) and then deleting obsolete ones with a cron job, like in this example.

Upvotes: 0

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