@Michael Bronson
Please try the below steps and check if it works or not? (I tested this on Ambari 2.6.2.2 and it worked fine without any issue)
Step1). Download and Setup the log4j extras Jar:
# mkdir /tmp/log4j_extras
# curl http://apache.mirrors.tds.net/logging/log4j/extras/1.2.17/apache-log4j-extras-1.2.17-bin.zip -o /tmp/log4j_extras/apache-log4j-extras-1.2.17-bin.zip
# cd /tmp/log4j_extras
# unzip apache-log4j-extras-1.2.17-bin.zip
# cp -f /tmp/log4j_extras/apache-log4j-extras-1.2.17/apache-log4j-extras-1.2.17.jar /usr/lib/ams-hbase/lib
(OR) in ambari UI you will find the property "hbase_classpath_additional" inside the AMS configs to point to the log4j extras jar.
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Step2). Edit the "ams-hbase-log4j template"
From ambari side navigate to amb ari UI
Ambari UI --> Ambari Metrics --> Configs --> Advanced --> "Advanced ams-hbase-log4j" --> ams-hbase-log4j template (text area)
And then "Comment out the following part:"
# Rolling File Appender
#log4j.appender.RFA=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
#log4j.appender.RFA.File=${hbase.log.dir}/${hbase.log.file}
#log4j.appender.RFA.MaxFileSize=${hbase.log.maxfilesize}
#log4j.appender.RFA.MaxBackupIndex=${hbase.log.maxbackupindex}
#log4j.appender.RFA.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
#log4j.appender.RFA.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %-5p [%t] %c{2}: %m%n.
Now add the following part to define your own RFA appender as following:
log4j.appender.RFA=org.apache.log4j.rolling.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.RFA.File=${hbase.log.dir}/${hbase.log.file}
log4j.appender.RFA.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.RFA.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %-5p [%t] %c{2}: %m%n
log4j.appender.RFA.rollingPolicy=org.apache.log4j.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy
log4j.appender.RFA.rollingPolicy.ActiveFileName=${hbase.log.dir}/${hbase.log.file}
log4j.appender.RFA.rollingPolicy.FileNamePattern=${hbase.log.dir}/${hbase.log.file}-.%d{yyyyMMdd}.log.gz.
Then restart the AMS service and then wait for some time to see the rolling.
I can see the following kind of Zip "hbase-ams-master-newhwx2.example.com.log-.20180817.log.gz" creation at my end next day:
# ls -lart /var/log/ambari-metrics-collector/
-rw-r--r--. 1 ams hadoop 9177961 Aug 18 00:00 hbase-ams-master-newhwx2.example.com.log-.20180817.log.gz
-rw-r--r--. 1 ams hadoop 7520915 Aug 18 19:43 gc.log-201808170101
-rw-r--r--. 1 ams hadoop 2506556 Aug 18 19:47 collector-gc.log-201808170220
-rw-r--r--. 1 ams hadoop 1869725 Aug 19 01:14 hbase-ams-master-newhwx2.example.com.log
drwxr-xr-x. 2 ams hadoop 8192 Aug 19 01:14 .
-rw-r--r--. 1 ams hadoop 234 Aug 19 01:14 hbase-ams-master-newhwx2.example.com.out
-rw-r--r--. 1 ams hadoop 678 Aug 19 01:16 ambari-metrics-collector-startup.out
-rw-r--r--. 1 ams hadoop 6485518 Aug 19 01:16 SecurityAuth.audit
-rw-r--r--. 1 ams hadoop 2008 Aug 19 01:17 ambari-metrics-collector.out
-rw-r--r--. 1 ams hadoop 40038004 Aug 19 01:18 ambari-metrics-collector.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 ams hadoop 6077 Aug 19 01:18 collector-gc.log-201808190114
-rw-r--r--. 1 ams hadoop 89210 Aug 19 01:18 gc.log-201808190114
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