Usman Khan` and `Mallory Mooney` are discussing the importance of logging to files, which provides valuable information for administrative tasks such as analyzing application performance, debugging system errors, and investigating security and compliance issues. However, managing large volumes of logs can be challenging due to resource constraints. To address this issue, they introduce `logrotate`, a Linux utility designed to simplify log management and maintenance through a process known as log rotation. Log rotation solves problems such as disk space consumption and the need for manual file searching by creating new files on a schedule and renaming old files. The authors will guide readers through customizing the `logrotate` utility to fit their logging needs, including adjusting the log rotation schedule, compressing files to save disk space, running scripts for additional processing, modifying permissions, adding timestamps to logs, debugging issues with the `logrotate` utility, and configuring resources to log at the appropriate level. The authors emphasize that log rotation is not a substitute for using a log forwarder and will provide examples of how to configure `logrotate` for various Linux distributions, including Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS.