Re: [ovirt-users] audit_log table performance tuning

On 15.04.2016 00:12, Marina Kalinin wrote: > Hi, > > Any suggestions or maybe already available features in the pipeline for > tuning the database, and specifically the audit_log table? > > The problem today is that with multiple applications accessing the engine > through the RestAPI, especially deployments with CloudForms, create huge > amount of login records in the audit_table. Which, in turns, consumes most > of the available memory on the machine running the engine and the database > and results in a terrible performance of engine and inaccessible Web UI. > > The solution today is to delete those records from the table [1]: > => delete from audit_log where message like '%logged%'; > > > Are there any current tunings we can apply to the database? > And if not - do we have any RFEs on limiting the records entered to the > database or a way to delete/filter those records somehow from the WebUI? > All I could find was RFE#1120659 [2], but it does not describe the exact > issue. > > Hi, I remember filing a BZ about this topic some years ago. I will mail it tomorrow to this thread as I had this exact issue, as a user of the rest api (without any persistent authentication).

the answer, as I recall (I haven't access to this BZ atm), was to simply truncate the event log, which is far from a "solution" at all. kind regards Sven _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users