JIRA access log taking huge space

[Vishal]

Hello Community,

We are having space issue on JIRA instance & turned out that access_log.* are taking huge space, precisely 60GB, any solution to that ?

Vishal

[Daniel Ebers]

Hi Vishal,

in this case I'd recommend to clarify why the log is using such a huge amount of space. Is it a user sending malformed  requests (I saw something like this with a broken Jira/Firefox-Addon). Is it a script hammering API? Is it a malicious process going on? This all needs to be looked into, maybe per low level tools (like grep) or a log analyzer (which might come in handy, like GoAccess - if you have a linux based system).

Apart from that you could check if log rotation of your access logs is in place and working correctly. If not it might be worth to fix it (or setup some kind of log rotation - in case you haven't installed one already).

Cheers,
Daniel