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Computer data logging is the process of recording events in a computer program, usually with a certain scope, in order to provide an audit trail that can be used to understand the activity of the system and to diagnose problems.

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What is the advantage of log file rotation based on file size?

answers already provided very useful reasons, but there is one more I'm surprised I haven't seen outside of a comment yet: To be able to delete old log files to free disk space A very busy application logging … all its processes will do a lot of logging. …
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