Pi-hole logs rotate twice a day
Pi-hole log files are rotated twice a day at odd hours because a second logrotate run is triggered by another job.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
10 public reports · first reported 9 October 2026 · last reported 12 October 2026
What's going wrong
Several Pi-hole users report that their main log is rotated at midnight and again at odd times through the day, filling archives with tiny files.
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