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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Im my experience, if your logs are growing that fast for a reason, you'll get to see it again... and again... and again. And show it to people going, "WTF, have you ever seen anything like this before?"

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my case docker didn't have a default max size that logs would stop at, so they just grew and grew exponentially. I also had the highest log level turned on to debug something so it was constantly logging a bunch of data.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

exponentially

Are logging the content of your log files?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

You'll also have management breathing down your neck about the costs if it's not absolutely necessary.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Built a centralized logging system to handle logging like this. Fun project but very much the result of bad logging hygiene.