Updated: 28 September 2026 · Applies to: Magento Open Source 2.4
Magento 2 writes logs to var/log/ in its folder. Without clean-up they grow until the disk is full. A daily cron job can archive and remove old logs.
Keep 14 days of logs
Add a cron job (cPanel: Advanced › Cron Jobs) that runs once a day:
find /home/USER/magento/var/log -name "*.log*" -type f -mtime +14 -delete
Keep a compressed copy before emptying a log
cd /home/USER/magento/var/log && gzip -c system.log > archive-system-$(date +%F).log.gz && : > system.log
Replace /home/USER/magento with your Magento folder. On a VPS, you can use logrotate instead.
