From cfe35f54b4a3aa7fcb4d3ade8185d5d01b5d4add Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ammar Bandukwala <ammar@ammar.io>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 10:53:56 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] feat(cli/agent): preserve old logs (#10776)

See https://github.com/coder/coder/pull/7815 for background.
---
 cli/agent.go | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cli/agent.go b/cli/agent.go
index 0cdfc66c80..533065ff62 100644
--- a/cli/agent.go
+++ b/cli/agent.go
@@ -153,8 +153,9 @@ func (r *RootCmd) workspaceAgent() *clibase.Cmd {
 			logWriter := &lumberjackWriteCloseFixer{w: &lumberjack.Logger{
 				Filename: filepath.Join(logDir, "coder-agent.log"),
 				MaxSize:  5, // MB
-				// Without this, rotated logs will never be deleted.
-				MaxBackups: 1,
+				// Per customer incident on November 17th, 2023, its helpful
+				// to have the log of the last few restarts to debug a failing agent.
+				MaxBackups: 10,
 			}}
 			defer logWriter.Close()