📣 Community Fork: Timberjack (Adds Time-Based Rotation)

[DeRuina]

Hi all,

I’ve seen several discussions here over the years about time-based log rotation, which Lumberjack doesn’t currently support.

To address that, I created a community fork called Timberjack.

It’s a drop-in replacement for Lumberjack that adds a RotationInterval field for time-based rotation (e.g., daily, hourly), while keeping all existing behavior intact.

Just wanted to share it here in case it helps others who land on this repo looking for that feature. Feedback, issues, or contributions are welcome!

🔗 https://github.com/DeRuina/timberjack

[DeRuina]

Quick update on Timberjack since my last post — it grew a few handy tricks:

• rotate every N (hour/day/etc) with RotationInterval
• rotate on the clock: minutes each hour (RotateAtMinutes) or specific times (RotateAt)
• manual rotate with your own tag: RotateWithReason("reload") → ...-reload.log
• compression: "gzip" or "zstd" (or "none")
• optional file naming tweak: AppendTimeAfterExt: true for foo.log--

Repo: https://github.com/DeRuina/timberjack — feedback welcome!