Aem dispatcher.log size surges suddenly

[karthikfordreal]

Hi, 

Our systems dispatcher.log file size surges suddenly. Even after nullifying the file, it increases upto 500mb/min. This file eats all the disk space in the dispatcher server. 

Can anyone advice how to resolve this issue. 

Thanks in advance. 

[Nupur_Jain · Accepted solution]

Hi @karthikfordreal 

You should check for few things on why the logs are filling at this rate:

1. Check if the log level for dispatcher logs is ERROR, not DEBUG or TRACE. TRace can produce  a lot of lines of log for a single request. Log level can be changed from httpd.conf or apache2.conf file by changing dispatcher global configuration 
   

   <fModule disp_apache2.c>
   DispatcherConfig conf/dispatcher.any
   DispatcherLog logs/dispatcher.log 
   DispatcherLogLevel 0
   DispatcherNoServerHeader 0 
   DispatcherDeclineRoot 0
   DispatcherUseProcessedURL 0
   DispatcherPassError 0
   DispatcherKeepAliveTimeout 60
   </IfModule>

   Make sure DispatcherLogLevel is 0 or ERROR
2. Try to analyse what type of requests are filling up the logs whether there are logs of flushing/invalidation of content request or page request etc. Then try to work on that part, you might new an extra pair of dispatcher/publisher if single publisher is serving a lot more than its capacity.

Hope it helps!

Thanks!

Nupur

[Mayank_Gandhi]

 As Nupur mentioned, first check what kind of calls are being logged and the log level set for those requests in the conf file.