How to delete older rolled over log4j2 logs, keeping up to 10 files?

Question

What I want is:

• Maximum of 10 log files, in total
• Each log file, not more than 50MB in size.

Thus the logs folder never grows

Answer 1

The TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy works based of the filePattern. Basically, the smallest unit of time in the file pattern (%d) is the triggering time interval. In your case the value is 'dd' hence the policy is triggered every day.

The presence of %i in your filePattern keeps multiple log files for a day. I would recommend trying without the %i in the filePattern.