How to remove domain logs in Plesk

Log in to Plesk.

Go to Domains > example.com > Logs > Manage Log Files.

Select log files that should be deleted and click Remove.

Note: On Linux servers, log file extensions .gz, .webstat, .processed can be safely removed.

Connect to a Plesk server via SSH.

Get the website logs structure:

Note: Subdomain and additional domain logs are located in subfolders, e.g. /var/www/vhosts/example.com/logs/sub.example.com.

# ls -l /var/www/vhosts/example.com/logs
...
drwx------ 2 user root 4096 Dec 1 18:24 .
drwx--x--- 5 user psaserv 4096 Dec 1 17:39 ..
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 132 Dec 1 17:39 access_log
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 14 Dec 1 18:24 access_log.processed
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Dec 1 18:24 access_log.webstat
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 0 Dec 1 17:39 access_ssl_log
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 0 Dec 1 18:24 access_ssl_log.processed
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Dec 1 18:24 access_ssl_log.webstat
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1278 Dec 1 18:28 error_log
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 16 Dec 1 18:28 error_log.gz
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 0 Dec 1 17:39 proxy_access_log
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 0 Dec 1 17:39 proxy_access_ssl_log
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 0 Dec 1 17:39 proxy_error_log

Remove log files:

• Log files with file extensions .gz, .webstat, .processed can be safely removed:

  # rm -rf /var/www/vhosts/example.com/logs/error_log.gz

• Main website log files (access_log, error_log, access_ssl_log) must be cleared:

  Warning: Removing main log files instead of clearing them will lead to incorrect functionality of Apache and nginx.

  # cat /dev/null >/var/www/vhosts/example.com/logs/error_log