Stratus Guides - Rotating Magento Logs

Rotating logs can help prevent log files from becoming too large and unwieldy.

To setup Logrotate to automatically rotate Magento logs:

Create a directory outside of the webroot to hold the config files:
```
 mkdir /srv/etc/
 mkdir /srv/etc/logrotate
```
Create a logrotate.conf file with the following content:
```
 /srv/public_html/var/log/*.log {
     su magemojo magemojo
     daily
     missingok
     rotate 30
     compress
     delaycompress
     notifempty
     olddir /srv/scaled/var/log/old/
 }
```
- su magemojo magemojo — Ensures that permissions stay correct
- daily – Run once a day at time set by cron job
- missingok — Don’t panic if empty
- rotate 30 — Retain for 30 days
- compress — Compress 2nd most recent file
- delaycompress — Do not compress newest rotated log
- notifempty — Do not rotate empty files
Add a [cron job](/docs/reference/stratus/control-panels/cron-panel/schedule/ “Cron Schedule Control Panel”/) to run once a day at the correct time:
/usr/sbin/logrotate -s /srv/etc/logrotate/logrotate.state /srv/etc/logrotate/logrotate.conf

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Last modified on June 3, 2026