Hello! So we have a use case where + Applications get redeployed frequently (10 per day) + The applications run in containers (Openshift) + The container hostname is always different on redeploy (new container) + The logfile is named after the container hostname (i.e. svc-2-asdf) Using the RollingFileAppender with a <file>${HOSTNAME}.log</file> and a TimeBasedRollingPolicy with a <fileNamePattern>${HOSTNAME}.%d{yyyy-MM-dd_HH-mm}.log.gz</fileNamePattern> this works fine when we do not redeploy. On redeploy however the ${HOSTNAME} changes and logs are not compressed because the RollingFileAppender only compresses on roll which is every period (here: minute) if the filename is still in the same pattern, which its not here. Similarly the <maxHistory> and the <cleanHistoryOnStart> do not work here. For this I have created a RollingFileAppender that compresses on shutdown. You can find it here: https://gist.github.com/JonasGroeger/34bb004b30d18d8bc12642ba03141ac6 Is there another way without this custom Appender? -- Jonas