# Rolling Elasticsearch Logs by Size
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rolling-elasticsearch-logs-by-size/40750
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 2, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rolling-elasticsearch-logs-by-size/40750 "2016-02-02T15:37:07Z")
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### Author:  [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rolling-elasticsearch-logs-by-size/40750/1 "2016-02-02T15:37:07Z")
Hi,
I am trying to improve management of our elasticsearch logs. To that end I'm trying to implement a policy of rolling the log when it exceeds a certain size and to retain a fixed number of compressed logs. Here is my config:
file:
type: extrasRollingFile
file: ${path.logs}/${[cluster.name](http://cluster.name)}.log
rollingPolicy: fixedWindowRollingPolicy
rollingPolicy.FileNamePattern: ${path.logs}/${[cluster.name](http://cluster.name)}.log.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.gz
rollingPolicy.MinIndex: 1
rollingPolicy.MaxIndex: 10
triggeringPolicy: sizeBasedTriggeringPolicy
triggeringPolicy.MaxFileSize: 1000MB
layout:
type: pattern
conversionPattern: "[%d{ISO8601}][%-5p][%-25c] %m%n"
Of course, this isn't working as nothing is being written to the log. Can someone point me in the right direction to getting this config working please?
Regards,
David
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rolling-elasticsearch-logs-by-size/40750/2 "2017-07-05T23:19:35Z")