How to compress rotated access log in JBoss EAP 7

Environment

• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
  • 7.3
  • 7.4

Issue

• I need to compress a rotated access log file to save disk space.

Resolution

A customer can compress the rotated access_log.log with specify the suffix attribute ends with .gz or .zip from JBoss EAP 7.3 onward. This is the same with [1] which describes server.log.

CLI:

/subsystem=logging/periodic-size-rotating-file-handler=ACCESS_LOG:write-attribute(name=suffix,value=".yy-MM-dd.gz")

Note: Rightly, it needs configuration for enabling access_log.log and rotating the access_log.log. See [2] and [3] for detail.

standalone.xml:

            <periodic-size-rotating-file-handler name="ACCESS_LOG" autoflush="true">
                <formatter>
                    <named-formatter name="ACCESS_LOG_FORMATTER"/>
                </formatter>
                <file relative-to="jboss.server.log.dir" path="access_log.log"/>
                <rotate-size value="500m"/>
                <max-backup-index value="3"/>
                <suffix value=".yy-MM-dd.gz"/>  <<== here
                <append value="true"/>
            </periodic-size-rotating-file-handler>

[1]How to compress JBoss logs
[2]How to enable access logging for JBoss EAP 7?
[3]Rotating Access Logs in JBoss EAP 7.x

Root Cause

This function has been implemented by LOGMGR-30.

• Content from issues.jboss.org is not included.LOGMGR-30 - Support automatic log file compression in FileHandler (for compressing all files in real time) and PeriodicRotatingFileHandler (for compressing upon rotation)

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