How does confer.log rotate and purge?

Products

• Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard (formerly Cb Defense)
• Carbon Black Cloud Enterprise EDR (formerly Cb Threathunter)

Issue/Introduction

How large does the confer.log file grow and how does it rotate?

Environment

• Carbon Black Cloud Sensor: 3.5.x.x and Higher
• Microsoft Windows: All Supported Versions

Resolution

• The confer.log file will grow to be 250 MB.
• Once it reaches that size, it will become a zip file named confer.log.1 and a new, empty confer.log file is created.
• When the next confer.log file reached 250 MB, confer.log.1 is renamed to confer.log.2. 
• This process repeats until confer.log.20 is created. 
• After confer.log.20 is created, if a new log file is generated, confer.log.20 is removed.

Additional Information

This feature is not available on MacOS or Linux yet. They are currently feature requests that are under consideration.