Description of problem: default logrotate-crond-container-puppet.yaml template...: parameter_defaults LogrotateRotate: '14' LogrotatePurgeAfterDays: '14' LogrotateMaxsize: '10M' ...is going to configure logrotate using: daily rotate 14 maxage 14 minsize 1 maxsize 10M missingok notifempty copytruncate delaycompress compress According to our docs: The following example (about default templates) forces the logrotate task to create a new log file when it reaches 10 megabytes and retains the log file for 14 days. So basically customers are expecting 14 days of log retention to be honored. This is not going to happen in case of heavy-logging services (control plane nova's units, for example), with rotate that is being caused by the maxsize. So basically we'll have just 14 rotated logs covering 14 hours that will be purged within 1 day. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openstack-tripleo-heat-templates How reproducible: just let logrotate-crond with default settings to handle heavy-logging services logs Actual results: heavy-logging services logs to be rotate 14 times within 14 hours, then purged. Expected results: 14 days retention (LogrotatePurgeAfterDays) to be honored regardless maxsize or slightly update docs in order to give customers explanation about how default template's parameters are going to interact (interfere?) each other in case of heavy-logging services Additional info: Not sure if, for example, adopting something like LogrotateRotate: (LogrotatePurgeAfterDays*24) could be a good strategy. Using rotate 336 (maxage*24h, where maxage is the LogrotatePurgeAfterDays logrotate config value) will ensure customers to have the 14 days worth of logs.