Unlimited log growth bloats the WordPress database
The log grows without any cap and fills the database to hundreds of megabytes, with no built-in cleanup that works.
8 public reports · first reported 8 December 2014 · last reported 25 June 2020
What's going wrong
Many owners report that Snitch keeps adding entries with no ceiling, so logs reach thousands or tens of thousands of rows within days. Some saw their post and meta tables grow to hundreds of megabytes, which slowed or broke phpMyAdmin and in one case took the site offline. Owners say the stated limit of around 200 items is not enforced, and the cleanup routine people find in forums is hidden or no longer works. The reports come from owners on small hosts with limited database space and from those who only wanted to monitor a short period. The opportunity is an automatic retention policy that caps and archives log data outside the live database.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports.
Products affected
Snitch.
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Who has this problem
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