I've noticed that after service restart logstash doesn't apply rules modified in log4j2.properties i.e appender.rolling.policies.size.size = 10MB (I've checked and the file has 12MB so it should work) Generally speaking, the goal is to delete logs older than 7D. appender.rolling.type = RollingFile…

Badger March 9, 2021, 8:33pm 2

You may find this thread useful. Especially the part about the log4j2 properties being applied to the wrong appender.

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Logstash doesn't take changes from log4j2.properties after restart service