Using Swift and logrotate

Ever have an exchange like this?

Q: What happened on this service? A: We can’t keep logs on the server past 2 months.  Those logs are gone.

Just about every IaaS out there has an object store. Amazon offers S3 and OpenStack providers have Swift. Why not just point logrotate at one of those object stores?

That’s just what I’ve done with Swiftrotate. It’s a simple shell script to use with logrotate. Config samples and more are in the project’s README.

NOTE: It doesn’t make a lot of sense to use without using dateext in logrotate. A lot of setups don’t use dateext, so there’s a utility script to rename all of your files to a dateext format.