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Free up Azure Linux VM disk space periodically

Atanu Gupta 186 Reputation points
2022-10-17T13:52:35.967+00:00

Hello,

I have a Linux VM where various agents are also running. The problem is that those agents are generating lot of log files in the VM which are eating up the disk space. Is there any way/automation exists in Azure to delete those log files periodically and free up disk.

Please advise. Thank you.

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  1. Maxim Sergeev 6,586 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2022-10-18T00:17:41.377+00:00

    Hi there,

    Azure VMs have a capability to run commands from Azure. You can automate this by using Azure Automation Account, Azure Functions (by enabling managed identities in these VMs).
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/run-command

    Here you can run your own scripts\commands to clean-up space

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  1. Atanu Gupta 186 Reputation points
    2022-10-20T04:05:50.937+00:00

    I have written a blog post on this topic. Anybody else might need this solution/help.

    http://techiemate.blogspot.com/2022/10/azure-automation-powershell-script-to.html

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  2. deherman-MSFT 38,021 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator
    2022-10-17T17:25:10.54+00:00

    @Atanu Gupta

    I understand you have logs being generated on your Linux VM and want to automate the deletion of these logs. My recommendation would be to setup logrotate. This allows you to setup a maximum number of logs to be stored and automatically rotate or delete them. RedHat has a good guide and includes some example configuration. Please take a look and let me know if this works for you.

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