Log files growing at a massive rate...

Posted January 7Jan 7

Hi,

Today I migrated my forum to a new host and a new VPS.

Currently, the log files are growing at around 2mb per 10 minutes with the following being the most common logs:

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cURL REQUEST: https://remoteservices.invisionpower.com/connectionCheck/?version=107785
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User-Agent: Invision Community 4

NULL

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RESPONSE
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HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 10
Connection: keep-alive
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 22:01:03 GMT
Server: Apache
Set-Cookie: AWSALB=UL3vNASDqXoaYBC/neJ91PPEyO9pdpha3aBzqxEzMLGvKPt4c4y+G5ckpXh0V0FWhRZWcftw3iO4dRWzJ1gDbpsxFEDEd2JOvh+tQ2Rw7pQQ8z1qy9P9cGyxp+st; Expires=Tue, 14 Jan 2025 22:01:03 GMT; Path=/
Set-Cookie: AWSALBCORS=UL3vNASDqXoaYBC/neJ91PPEyO9pdpha3aBzqxEzMLGvKPt4c4y+G5ckpXh0V0FWhRZWcftw3iO4dRWzJ1gDbpsxFEDEd2JOvh+tQ2Rw7pQQ8z1qy9P9cGyxp+st; Expires=Tue, 14 Jan 2025 22:01:03 GMT; Path=/; SameSite=None
X-Cache: Miss from cloudfront
Via: 1.1 0f282d08050e2e1301f27b3575348bb4.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
X-Amz-Cf-Pop: TXL50-P6
X-Amz-Cf-Id: Ah1TuUbXVer_VzgGxcSkFQYysYcS3U32u2F-0q8oEzxftlLnPMUijQ==

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I've removed identifiable information from the below log:

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Array
(
[event] => member_edited
[payload] => Array
(
[member] => Array
(op
[id] => 539
[name] => MEMBERNAME
[title] =>
[timeZone] => Europe/London
[formattedName] => <span style='color:#bf9000'>MEMBERNAME</span>
[primaryGroup] => Array
(
[id] => 24
[name] => e0b4050f84a192751b51fb5053b6775f
[formattedName] => <span style='color:#bf9000'>e0b4050f84a192751b51fb5053b6775f</span>
)

[secondaryGroups] => Array
(
)

[email] =>
[joined] => 2020-08-29T14:15:29Z
[registrationIpAddress] =>
[warningPoints] => 0
[reputationPoints] => 1935
[photoUrl] =>
[photoUrlIsDefault] =>
[coverPhotoUrl] =>
[profileUrl] =>
[validating] =>
[posts] => 2523
[lastActivity] => 2025-01-07T22:01:01Z
[lastVisit] => 2025-01-07T04:31:32Z
[lastPost] => 2025-01-05T17:19:38Z
[birthday] => 12/28/1963
[profileViews] => 1853
[customFields] => Array
(
[1] => Array
(
[name] => Personal Information
[fields] => Array
(
[1] => Array
(
[name] => About Me
[value] =>
)

[2] => Array
(
[name] => Biography
[value] =>
)

[3] => Array
(
[name] => Location
[value] =>
)

[4] => Array
(
[name] => Interests
[value] =>
)

[5] => Array
(
[name] => Occupation
[value] =>
)

)

)

[6] => Array
(
[name] => Retained
[fields] => Array
(
[6] => Array
(
[name] => Member Title
[value] =>
)

)

)

)

[rank] => Array
(
[id] => 18
[name] =>
[icon] =>
[points] => 13000
)

[achievements_points] => 18495
[allowAdminEmails] => 1
[completed] => 1
)

[changes] => Array
(
[create_menu] => {"menu_key":805536801,"menu":{"topic":{"link":"","extraData":{"data-ipsDialog":true,"data-ipsDialog-size":"narrow"},"title":"select_forum"},"gallery_image":{"link":"?_new=1","extraData":{"data-ipsDialog-size":"medium","data-ipsDialog":"true","data-ipsDialog-destructOnClose":"true","data-ipsDialog-close":"false","data-ipsDialog-extraClass":"cGalleryDialog_outer","data-ipsDialog-remoteSubmit":"true"}},"invitation_create_new":{"link":"?_new=1","extraData":{"data-ipsDialog":true,"data-ipsDialog-size":"narrow"},"title":"send_invitation"}}}
)

)

[filters] => Array
(
[completed] => 1
[allowAdminEmails] => 1
)

)

I was wondering if anyone knew what was causing these issues and if I can clear the log after fixing?

January 8Jan 8

There are 3rd party items being loaded for each one of those logs. I would advise on disabling all 3rd party applications and plugins first of all to see if thats still happening. If its not, switch them on one at a time until you see which is causing the issue. If that doesnt resolve the problem, please update your ftp details on file

January 8Jan 8

Author

It looks like it has settled now, I'm not sure if it was the initialisation of the applications?

January 8Jan 8

It seems you're logging "all" the stuff.

Check your constants.php and remove the row with DEBUG_LOG

January 8Jan 8

Author

4 minutes ago, Daniel F said:

It seems you're logging "all" the stuff.

Check your constants.php and remove the row with DEBUG_LOG

Will I need this in the future for fault diagnosis or will the other logs surfice?

January 8Jan 8

Thats something you would only really add in if you are actively trying to debug an issue

Deanuk
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January 8Jan 8

Author

6 minutes ago, Marc said:

Thats something you would only really add in if you are actively trying to debug an issue

Perfect, thanks for your help guys, last question, how do I purge the current logs to reduce them or will this do it over time? If so, how long?

January 8Jan 8

They would reduce automatically based on what you have set in the settings part of your system logs page. If you really wanted to get rid immediately, you could remove them from the table if you wanted to, but we cannot advise you to do that. The official response would be to await them being removed by the system automatically