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 }
 ```
 
+#### Rotation
+
+Log rotation is not provided with Logrus. Log rotation should be done by an
+external program (like `logrotated(8)`) that can compress and delete old log
+entries. It should not be a feature of the application-level logger.
+
+
 [godoc]: https://godoc.org/github.com/Sirupsen/logrus