# System Logs max events

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-logs-max-events/92278>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80\
**Created:** [June 24, 2024, 12:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-logs-max-events/92278 "2024-06-24T12:51:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![kaushik.shah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@kaushik.shah](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kaushik.shah)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 12:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-logs-max-events/92278/1 "2024-06-24T12:51:54Z")

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Does anyone point on what am I missing?

I made sure the logback.xml has 50000 max events configured for appender but the log file just keeps growing

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-logs-max-events/92278/2 "2024-06-24T14:56:18Z")

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Can you upload your actual logback file?

The pruning of log events is on a time based debounce, so it's never going to run faster than once per minute. If you've got an **extremely** spammy logger, I could see you pushing so many events so fast that the time based cleanup is never able to "catch up" and keeps getting further and further behind, maybe?

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**Author:** ![kaushik.shah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@kaushik.shah](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kaushik.shah)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-logs-max-events/92278/3 "2024-06-24T15:50:42Z")

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-logs-max-events/92278/4 "2024-06-24T17:11:03Z")

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Okay, looks vanilla. So what logger(s) are spamming your logs to hit 18 million events in any reasonable timespan?

Consider contacting our [support department](https://support.inductiveautomation.com/hc/en-us) so they can take a live look at your system and rule out lots of potential problems all at once.