[GH-ISSUE #250] Auto delete logs in self hosted version #181

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opened 2026-02-25 23:41:29 +03:00 by kerem · 4 comments

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Originally created by @Foddy on GitHub (May 5, 2019).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks/issues/250

I couldn’t find any information about that in the docs so I am wondering if the self hosted version is able to automatically remove old logs from pings?

I have some jobs running every minute. I don’t want to imagine how many no longer relevant rows my database will have in a few months... :S

Originally created by @Foddy on GitHub (May 5, 2019). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks/issues/250 I couldn’t find any information about that in the docs so I am wondering if the self hosted version is able to automatically remove old logs from pings? I have some jobs running every minute. I don’t want to imagine how many no longer relevant rows my database will have in a few months... :S

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@Foddy commented on GitHub (May 5, 2019):

I am blind. Sorry.

@Foddy commented on GitHub (May 5, 2019): I am blind. Sorry.

kerem commented

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@yonas commented on GitHub (Apr 25, 2021):

@Foddy I'm looking for an automated method as well. What did you find?

@yonas commented on GitHub (Apr 25, 2021): @Foddy I'm looking for an automated method as well. What did you find?

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@cuu508 commented on GitHub (May 3, 2021):

@yonas – there is a prunepings management command (details in README). Run it regularly from e.g. a cron job.

@cuu508 commented on GitHub (May 3, 2021): @yonas – there is a `prunepings` management command ([details in README](https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks#database-cleanup)). Run it regularly from e.g. a cron job.

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@yonas commented on GitHub (May 3, 2021):

@cuu508 -- Thanks! I've created a pull request so it can find Python 3. https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks/pull/504

However, after running the script, I still see log entries in the web UI when looking at a check's details page.

On first run, it reports deleted a couple thousand pings. On second run, immediately after, it reports 0 pings pruned. It seems like the web UI is either caching pings or using another source to fetch ping logs.

@yonas commented on GitHub (May 3, 2021): @cuu508 -- Thanks! I've created a pull request so it can find Python 3. https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks/pull/504 However, after running the script, I still see log entries in the web UI when looking at a check's details page. On first run, it reports deleted a couple thousand pings. On second run, immediately after, it reports 0 pings pruned. It seems like the web UI is either caching pings or using another source to fetch ping logs.