diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index df064c3fa5..3dd5d1675d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 - [#7153](https://github.com/apache/trafficcontrol/pull/7153) *Traffic Control Cache Config (t3c)* Adds an extra T3C check for validity of an ssl cert (crash fix).
 - [#3965](https://github.com/apache/trafficcontrol/pull/3965) *Traffic Router* Traffic Router now always includes a `Content-Length` header in the response.
 - [#7182](https://github.com/apache/trafficcontrol/pull/7182) Sort peers used in strategy.yaml to prevent false positive for reload.
+- [#6533](https://github.com/apache/trafficcontrol/issues/6533) *TR should not rename/recreate log files on rollover
 
 ## [7.0.0] - 2022-07-19
 ### Added
diff --git a/docs/source/admin/traffic_router.rst b/docs/source/admin/traffic_router.rst
index b640741d23..3d6aeb16f3 100644
--- a/docs/source/admin/traffic_router.rst
+++ b/docs/source/admin/traffic_router.rst
@@ -166,6 +166,8 @@ For the most part, the configuration files and :term:`Parameters` used by Traffi
 	+----------------------------+-------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------+
 	| log4j2.xml                 | various parameters                        | Configuration of ``log4j`` is documented on                                      | N/A                                                |
 	|                            |                                           | `their site <http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/index.html>`_; adjust as needed |                                                    |
+	|                            |                                           | Log rotation is handled by logrotate. Relevant files are in /etc/logrotate.d and |                                                    |
+	|                            |                                           | in /etc/cron.daily.                                                              |                                                    |
 	+----------------------------+-------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------+
 	| server.xml                 | various parameters                        | Traffic Router specific configuration for Apache Tomcat. See the Apache Tomcat   | N/A                                                |
 	|                            |                                           | `documentation <https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/index.html>`_           |                                                    |
diff --git a/infrastructure/ansible/roles/traffic-router/files/traffic_router.logrotate b/infrastructure/ansible/roles/traffic-router/files/traffic_router.logrotate
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cf6f862bd8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/infrastructure/ansible/roles/traffic-router/files/traffic_router.logrotate
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+/opt/traffic_router/var/log/access.log {
+    daily
+    size 100m
+    compress
+    rotate 7
+    dateformat -%d%m%Y
+    copytruncate
+}
+
+/opt/traffic_router/var/log/traffic_router.log {
+    daily
+    size 100m
+    compress
+    rotate 7
+    dateformat -%d%m%Y
+    copytruncate
+}
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diff --git a/infrastructure/ansible/roles/traffic-router/tasks/traffic_router.yml b/infrastructure/ansible/roles/traffic-router/tasks/traffic_router.yml
index b23314454b..e8f6490226 100644
--- a/infrastructure/ansible/roles/traffic-router/tasks/traffic_router.yml
+++ b/infrastructure/ansible/roles/traffic-router/tasks/traffic_router.yml
@@ -94,6 +94,15 @@
   become: yes
   register: tr_systemd
 
+- name: Copy traffic router logrotate file
+  file:
+    src: traffic_router.logrotate
+    dest: /etc/logrotate.d/traffic_router
+    mode: 0644
+    owner: root
+    group: root
+  become: yes
+
 - name: Reload systemd unit files if needed
   systemd:
     daemon_reload: yes
diff --git a/traffic_router/build/build_rpm.sh b/traffic_router/build/build_rpm.sh
index 56079e5847..f624f44906 100755
--- a/traffic_router/build/build_rpm.sh
+++ b/traffic_router/build/build_rpm.sh
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ buildRpmTrafficRouter () {
 
 	export STARTUP_SCRIPT_DIR="/lib/systemd/system"
 	export STARTUP_SCRIPT_LOC="../core/src/main/lib/systemd/system"
+	export LOGROTATE_SCRIPT_DIR="/etc/logrotate.d"
+	export LOGROTATE_SCRIPT_LOC="../core/src/main/lib/logrotate"
 
 	cd "$TR_DIR" || { echo "Could not cd to $TR_DIR: $?"; return 1; }
 	mvn -P rpm-build -Dmaven.test.skip=true -DminimumTPS=1 clean package ||  \
diff --git a/traffic_router/build/pom.xml b/traffic_router/build/pom.xml
index 42ecedb639..5ee9f7dc38 100644
--- a/traffic_router/build/pom.xml
+++ b/traffic_router/build/pom.xml
@@ -208,6 +208,18 @@
 										</source>
 									</sources>
 								</mapping>
+								<mapping>
+									<directory>${env.LOGROTATE_SCRIPT_DIR}</directory>
+									<directoryIncluded>false</directoryIncluded>
+									<filemode>644</filemode>
+									<username>root</username>
+									<groupname>root</groupname>
+									<sources>
+										<source>
+											<location>${env.LOGROTATE_SCRIPT_LOC}</location>
+										</source>
+									</sources>
+								</mapping>
 								<mapping>
 									<directory>${deploy.dir}/webapps</directory>
 									<directoryIncluded>false</directoryIncluded>
diff --git a/traffic_router/core/src/main/conf/log4j2.xml b/traffic_router/core/src/main/conf/log4j2.xml
index 5984d9d0e4..760eefdff7 100644
--- a/traffic_router/core/src/main/conf/log4j2.xml
+++ b/traffic_router/core/src/main/conf/log4j2.xml
@@ -13,41 +13,30 @@
 	See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 	limitations under the License.
  -->
-<Configuration>
+<!-- file deployed via ansible push, local edits are subject to be overwritten -->
+<Configuration packages="org.apache.trafficrouter.trafficrouterappender" verbose="true">
     <Appenders>
         <Console name="stdout" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
             <PatternLayout pattern="%m%n" />
         </Console>
-        <RollingFile name="traffic_router_access"
-                     fileName="${deploy.dir}/var/log/access.log"
-                     filePattern="${deploy.dir}/var/log/access.log.%i" >
-            <PatternLayout pattern="%m%n" />
-            <Policies>
-                <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="200MB" />
-            </Policies>
-            <DefaultRolloverStrategy max="10" />
-            <ThresholdFilter level="INFO" />
-        </RollingFile>
-        <RollingFile name="traffic_router"
-                     fileName="${deploy.dir}/var/log/traffic_router.log"
-                     filePattern="${deploy.dir}/var/log/traffic_router.log.%i" >
-            <PatternLayout pattern="%-5p %d{yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %c - %m%n" />
-            <Policies>
-                <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="100MB" />
-            </Policies>
-            <DefaultRolloverStrategy max="1" />
-            <ThresholdFilter level="ALL" />
-        </RollingFile>
+        <File name="traffic_router" fileName="/opt/traffic_router/var/log/traffic_router.log" immediateFlush="true" append="true">
+           <PatternLayout pattern="%-5p %d{yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %c - %m%n" />
+           <ThresholdFilter level="ALL" />
+        </File>
+        <File name="traffic_router_access" fileName="/opt/traffic_router/var/log/access.log" immediateFlush="true" append="true">
+           <PatternLayout pattern="%m%n" />
+           <ThresholdFilter level="INFO" />
+        </File>
     </Appenders>
     <Loggers>
+        <Root level="WARN" additivity="false" >
+            <AppenderRef ref="stdout" />
+        </Root>
         <Logger name="org.apache.traffic_control.traffic_router" level="INFO" additivity="false" >
             <AppenderRef ref="traffic_router" />
         </Logger>
         <Logger name="org.apache.traffic_control.traffic_router.core.access" level="INFO" additivity="false" >
             <AppenderRef ref="traffic_router_access" />
         </Logger>
-        <Root level="WARN" additivity="false" >
-            <AppenderRef ref="stdout" />
-        </Root>
     </Loggers>
 </Configuration>
diff --git a/traffic_router/core/src/main/lib/logrotate/traffic_router b/traffic_router/core/src/main/lib/logrotate/traffic_router
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2604d09a8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/traffic_router/core/src/main/lib/logrotate/traffic_router
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+/opt/traffic_router/var/log/access.log {
+    daily
+    size 1k
+    compress
+    rotate 7
+    dateformat -%d%m%Y
+    copytruncate
+}
+
+/opt/traffic_router/var/log/traffic_router.log {
+    daily
+    size 1k
+    compress
+    rotate 7
+    dateformat -%d%m%Y
+    copytruncate
+}
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