As the extras features are not shipped with the default log4j implementation hence the users will need to download the "Apache Extras™ for Apache log4j" (Like: apache-log4j-extras) : https://logging.apache.org/log4j/extras/download.html Example: For example download the jar "apache-log4j-extras-1.2.17.jar" and place it inside the location: /etc/hadoop/conf/secure/ 2. Add the property -Dhadoop.root.logger=INFO,ZIPRFA to export AMBARI_JVM_ARGS parameter in /var/lib/ambari-server/ambari-env.sh: export AMBARI_JVM_ARGS=$AMBARI_JVM_ARGS' -Xms512m -Xmx2048m -Djava.security.auth.login.config=/etc/ambari-server/conf/krb5JAASLogin.conf -Djava.security.krb5.conf=/etc/krb5.conf -Djavax.security.auth.useSubjectCredsOnly=false -Dhadoop.root.logger=INFO,ZIPRFA' 3. Uncomment/Add the server classpath in /var/lib/ambari-server/ambari-env.sh: export SERVER_CLASSPATH=/etc/hadoop/conf/secure 4. Added the following property to log4j: #log4j.rootLogger=INFO,filelog4j.rootLogger=INFO,ZIPRFA Comment out the following values: # Direct log messages to a log file #log4j.appender.file=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender #log4j.appender.file.File=${ambari.log.dir}/${ambari.log.file} #log4j.appender.file.MaxFileSize=80MB #log4j.appender.file.MaxBackupIndex=60 #log4j.appender.file.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout #log4j.appender.file.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{DATE} %5p [%t] %c{1}:%L - %m%n Add the following values: #### New Appender to Zip the Log Files Based on Daily Rotation log4j.appender.ZIPRFA=org.apache.log4j.rolling.RollingFileAppender log4j.appender.ZIPRFA.File=${ambari.log.dir}/${ambari.log.file} log4j.appender.ZIPRFA.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.ZIPRFA.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %p %c: %m% log4j.appender.ZIPRFA.rollingPolicy=org.apache.log4j.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy log4j.appender.ZIPRFA.rollingPolicy.ActiveFileName=${ambari.log.dir}/${ambari.log.file} log4j.appender.ZIPRFA.rollingPolicy.FileNamePattern=${ambari.log.dir}/${ambari.log.file}-.%d{yyyyMMdd}.log.gz 5. Run ps -ef | grep ambari and check for -Dhadoop.root.logger=INFO,EWMA,RFA 6. Now restart ambari server and check for -Dhadoop.root.logger again, it should have been changed to -Dhadoop.root.logger=INFO,ZIPRFA Now when the date changes, ambari server logs would be rolled over. -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 301 Sep 8 12:33 ambari-server.log-.20170907.log.gz -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 921 Sep 9 20:23 ambari-server.log-.20170908.log.gz -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 249 Sep 10 03:05 ambari-server.log-.20170909.log.gz -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 304 Sep 11 05:43 ambari-server.log-.20170910.log.gz -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 247 Sep 12 17:55 ambari-server.log-.20170911.log.gz -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 28867 Sep 13 01:42 ambari-server.log-.20170912.log.gz -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1608 Sep 14 00:35 ambari-server.log-.20170913.log.gz -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1873 Sep 15 00:08 ambari-server.log-.20170914.log.gz Reference Article: https://community.hortonworks.com/articles/50058/using-log4j-extras-how-to-rotate-as-well-as-zip-th.html ... View more