How to cleanup disk after sending logs to CloudWatch

Question

Once logs are sent to CloudWatch using the CloudWatch client, we want to cleanup the disk. We have following 2 use cases.

1. We don't login into some of the servers. We don't need to keep the logs on disk. So cleanup can happen immediately after sending logs to Server.
2. On some servers, we want to keep logs for the last N days, after which these need to be deleted.

Answer 1

The Cloudwatch Logs Agent is compatible with logrotate, just make sure that you use one of the supported patterns.

See: CloudWatch Logs Agent Reference - Amazon CloudWatch Logs