# bets way to rotate ansible logs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [December 19, 2013, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/bets-way-to-rotate-ansible-logs/14185 "2013-12-19T21:16:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dimon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dimon](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dimon)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/bets-way-to-rotate-ansible-logs/14185/1 "2013-12-19T21:16:07Z")
I like the fact that sticking log\_path = ./my-log.log into ansible.cfg gives me nice history of actions I can [re]visit later. However with larger playbooks and increased number of actions (and with increased verbosity) log becomes rather large quite fast. So finding heads and tails of each run become a bit of a struggle. What is the best way to rotate or otherwise separate logs for each run? ---
**Author:** ![Dimon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dimon](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dimon)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/bets-way-to-rotate-ansible-logs/14185/2 "2013-12-19T21:17:18Z")
g’ah! should’ve been “best way”… can’t type today… ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca1)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 9:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/bets-way-to-rotate-ansible-logs/14185/3 "2013-12-19T21:26:17Z")
i send them to syslog and have /var/log/ansible/, and logrotate takes care of it. ---
**Author:** ![queglay](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/queglay/32/1807_2.png) [@queglay](https://forum.ansible.com/u/queglay)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 12:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/bets-way-to-rotate-ansible-logs/14185/4 "2019-08-28T12:13:25Z")
Hey Brian, could you elaborate on how you send them to syslog?