# How to stop reading certain things on audit log

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-stop-reading-certain-things-on-audit-log/52978>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [November 11, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-stop-reading-certain-things-on-audit-log/52978 "2021-11-11T17:39:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![andrews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@andrews](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/andrews)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-stop-reading-certain-things-on-audit-log/52978/1 "2021-11-11T17:39:08Z")

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Currently my audit log is being over crowded by my timer script, and user script logging various tags related to my timer. I want to prevent this so I can just see what people are doing, not every second of my timer over and over for many lines.

any ideas? below is a picture of my bloated log. thank you in advance.

 ![auditlog](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/7/8/78146fc9bcf6b1fbbbb57f5bc80377cd98d44249.png)

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**Author:** ![kvane](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kvane/32/22228_2.png) [@kvane](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kvane)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-stop-reading-certain-things-on-audit-log/52978/2 "2022-01-31T17:15:43Z")

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The audit log will attempt to track tag writes. The workaround to this behavior would be filtering the SELECT query on the audit log to ignore tag writes that target these tags.

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 5:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-stop-reading-certain-things-on-audit-log/52978/3 "2022-01-31T17:42:38Z")

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Consider not using gateway tags for per-client information. Use session properties in Perspective, or Client Tags in Vision.