[SOLVED] What does the pm2 default logrotate files settings mean?

What does the pm2 default logrotate files settings mean?

I am currently working on an app that creates a lot of large log files. And so in order to manage these I would like to just restart the app at midnight, compress the log file it left behind, and start a new log file with the current date, so the log folder might look like this:

latest.log
2022-10-22_00:00:00.log.tar.gz
2022-10-21_00:00:00.log.tar.gz
2022-10-20_00:00:00.log.tar.gz
2022-10-19_00:00:00.log.tar.gz

PM2 promises to be able to do this using this module:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/pm2-logrotate But it seems to have a nasty reputation: https://stackoverflow.com/a/71852170/2741831

So I was ready to give up when I found that pm2 has a native function that is confusingly also called logrotate:

https://pm2.keymetrics.io/docs/usage/log-management/#Setting%20up%20a%20native%20logrotate Section native logrotate

Which generates a config file that looks like this:

/home/user/.pm2/pm2.log /home/user/.pm2/logs/*.log {
        rotate 12
        weekly
        missingok
        notifempty
        compress
        delaycompress
        create 0640 user user
}

which is not documented anywhere so I have no idea what it is or how it works, although it appears to be able to compress log files, which is nice. It doesn't even say if I have to setup a crontab for it or not.

So heres my questions:

can I use pm2 native logrotate to setup a system like described above?
what does the config files and especially the path at the top mean?
will pm2-logrotate itself or do I need to setup a crontab?

Solution

Apparently, all this command does is generate a config file for the Redhat logrotate utility. So I guess just use that