From 233a32a1333a0305ddd6e327a528340a07270279 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ammar Bandukwala <ammar@ammar.io>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2023 22:23:50 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] feat(cli/agent): keep old logs

---
 cli/agent.go | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cli/agent.go b/cli/agent.go
index 0cdfc66c80323..533065ff62665 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()