Cleaning up the log

After using the package for a while you might have recorded a lot of activity. This package provides an artisan command activitylog:clean to clean the log.

Running this command will result in the deletion of all recorded activity that is older than the number of days specified in the delete_records_older_than_days of the config file.

You can leverage Laravel's scheduler to run the clean up command now and then.

php artisan activitylog:clean

//app/Console/Kernel.php

protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule)
{
   $schedule->command('activitylog:clean')->daily();
}

If you want to automatically cleanup your production system you should append the --force option as the command will otherwise ask you to confirm the action. This is to prevent accidental data loss.

##Define the log to clean

If you want to clean just one log you can define it as command argument. It will filter the log_name attribute of the Activity model.

php artisan activitylog:clean my_log_channel

##Overwrite the days to keep per call

You can define the days to keep for each call as command option. This will overwrite the config for this run.

php artisan activitylog:clean --days=7

##MySQL - Rebuild index & get back space after clean.

After clean, you might experience database table size still allocated more than actual lines in table, execute this line in MySQL to OPTIMIZE / ANALYZE table.

OPTIMIZE TABLE activity_log;

OR

ANALYZE TABLE activity_log;

*this SQL operation will lock write/read of database, use ONLY when server under maintanance mode.