Pm2: [BUG] pm2 flush <app_id> flushes all the logs

Created on 14 Dec 2018 · 6Comments · Source: Unitech/pm2

What's going wrong?

When I ran pm2 flush <app_id> pm2 flushed all the logs for all 10 apps I have.

Supporting information

PM2 REPORT (Fri Dec 14 2018 10:11:38 GMT+0000 (UTC))

--- Daemon -------------------------------------------------

pm2d version : 3.1.2
node version : 9.4.0
node path : /usr/local/bin/pm2
argv : /usr/local/bin/node,/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/Daemon.js
argv0 : node
user : root
uid : 0
gid : 0
uptime : 3min

--- CLI ----------------------------------------------------

local pm2 : 3.1.2
node version : 9.4.0
node path : /usr/local/bin/pm2
argv : /usr/local/bin/node,/usr/local/bin/pm2,report
argv0 : node
user : root
uid : 0
gid : 0

--- System info --------------------------------------------

arch : x64
platform : linux
type : Linux
cpus : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU @ 2.50GHz
cpus nb : 2
freemem : 1115119616
totalmem : 7864020992
home : /root

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Source

alielkhateeb

Most helpful comment

I am on 4.2.1 and still doesn't delete logs.
pm2 flush does not work

toderitagcristian on 11 Jan 2020

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published

$ npm install pm2@latest -g
$ pm2 update

Unitech on 19 Dec 2018

🎉1

Hi, I am on pm2 version 3.3.1, and now when I run pm2 flush <app_id> it doesn't even flush any of the apps.

alielkhateeb on 8 Mar 2019

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I am on 4.2.1 and still doesn't delete logs.
pm2 flush does not work

toderitagcristian on 11 Jan 2020

👍2

4.4.0
su - gitlab-runner -c "pm2 flush 5"
now working

nepeky4e69ka on 10 Jul 2020

4.4.1:

$ pm2 ls
┌────┬────────────────────┬──────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
│ id │ name               │ mode     │ ↺    │ status    │ cpu      │ memory   │
├────┼────────────────────┼──────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ 0  │ main               │ fork     │ 3    │ stopped   │ 0%       │ 0b       │
└────┴────────────────────┴──────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┘

$ pm2 flush 0
[PM2] Logs flushed           # !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

$ pm2 flush main             # OK
[PM2] Flushing:
[PM2] /home/fedora/.pm2/logs/main-out.log
[PM2] /home/fedora/.pm2/logs/main-error.log
[PM2] Logs flushed

More information:

$ node -v
v12.18.3

$ npm -v
6.14.8

$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME=Fedora
VERSION="31 (Cloud Edition)"
#...

mirismaili on 17 Sep 2020

this is either not fixed, or the fix fell out of later versions! I was on 4.4.0 and it doesn't work, updated to 4.5.0 and it still doesn't work! The only thing that DOES work is "pm2 flush" which of course flushes out (empties) logs for ALL running pm2 apps.