# Traefik container and log rotation

**URL:** <https://community.traefik.io/t/traefik-container-and-log-rotation/9147>\
**Category:** Traefik v2\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [December 27, 2020, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/traefik-container-and-log-rotation/9147 "2020-12-27T18:16:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![tam481](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.traefik.io/tam481/32/2310_2.png) [@tam481](https://community.traefik.io/u/tam481)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2020, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/traefik-container-and-log-rotation/9147/1 "2020-12-27T18:16:49Z")

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Hello all,  
I'm running Traefik in docker and my logs have grown to over 2.5GB without realising. I use Promtail to collect logs to Loki. How would I go about sending Traefik the USR1 signal to rotate logs and can Promtail do that?

Thanks in advance