clearing/limiting size of Traffic Log

  • Resolved rcain

    (@rcain)


    2 years, 5 months ago

    Hi,

    Fantastic & indispensable plugin. Thanks. We are in the process of purchasing Pro licenses for all our sites.

    Q: does anyone know how to clear the Traffic Log &/or limit its size – its getting very big – no obvious method i can see (though there is for Activity Log).

    Thanks

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  • Plugin Support Jelena

    (@jmisic)

    Hi,

    We are happy to hear that you like Shield! ??

    Regarding your question, traffic logs can be cleared automatically.

    Under the main Shield menu > Config > Traffic > you can find an option “Auto Expiry Cleaning”.

    Please feel free to use that option to enter the maximum number of days you want and the Database cleanup will automatically delete logs older than that number of days.

    The traffic log expiry will also depend on the Activity Log as the the Activity Log relies on data from the traffic log too.

    Hope this helps but please do let us know if you have any other questions.

    Thanks.

    Jelena

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by Jelena.
    Thread Starter rcain

    (@rcain)

    Hi Jelena,

    Thanks for that. Indeed I had checked there, but it didn’t seem to be effective. But your second note explains things – vis:

    Shield menu > Config > Traffic > “Auto Expiry Cleaning” = 3
    whereas
    Shield menu > Config > Activity > “Auto Clean” = 7

    – and it was taking the greater of these two figures it seems for both Traffic Logs & Activity Logs retained.

    Slightly confusing. But I now understand why. Thanks again ??

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by rcain.
    Plugin Author Paul

    (@paultgoodchild)

    Good point, we’ll look to making this a bit clearer. Thanks for reporting this!

    May I ask, if you’re happy with Shield, would you be open to dropping us a quick review to let us know your thoughts – it’d be hugely helpful to us, thank you!

    Thread Starter rcain

    (@rcain)

    done. with pleasure. ??

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