# Enable rolling logstash 2.3.4

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enable-rolling-logstash-2-3-4/59355>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [August 30, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enable-rolling-logstash-2-3-4/59355 "2016-08-30T19:20:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![prabhakar349](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5e9695/32.png) [@prabhakar349](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prabhakar349)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enable-rolling-logstash-2-3-4/59355/1 "2016-08-30T19:20:22Z")

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Hi All,

I want to enable rolling log file for logstash process itself.  
I looked into documentation but it only have option to log only in one file which never rotates.

Thanks,  
Prabhakar

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enable-rolling-logstash-2-3-4/59355/2 "2016-08-30T19:46:59Z")

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Logstash doesn't rotate its log files by itself. Use e.g. logrotate for this. The RPM and Debian packages support this out of the box.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enable-rolling-logstash-2-3-4/59355/3 "2017-07-06T04:40:48Z")

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