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This article details how to debug performance issues involving Livestatus.

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In Setup → General → Global settings we have several settings to improve the log parsing.

Screenshot of global settings with max concurrent livestatus connections set to 20. Max number of cached log messages set to 500000. History log rotation size limit set to 50 MiB.  Max number of parsed lines per log file set to 1000000.




Maximum concurrent Livestatus connections Typically, the default value should be acceptable. If you have a larger number of users, views, or distributed monitoring, you can increase this value step-by-step (50 - 100 - 150)

Maximum number of cached log messages

To speed up queries for historical data, the core keeps an in-memory cache of log file messages. This number can be configured here. A larger number requires more RAM. Note: even if you set this to 0, there might be some cases where messages need to be cached anyway.

You can set this to one million if you have enough memory

History log rotation: Rotate by size (Limit of the size)A log file rotation will be forced whenever its size exceeds that limit. In a large environment, you can increase this value to, e.g., 200mb. Checkmk will now need to parse the same amount of data through fewer files.
Maximum number of parsed lines per log file

To avoid large timeouts in the case of oversized history log files, the core limits the number of lines read from history log files. The limit is on a per-file basis and can be configured here. Exceeding lines are ignored, and an error is logged in the CMC daemon log file.


For example:

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2021-12-03 09:30:30 [3] [client 1] more than 500000 lines in "/omd/sites/$OMD_SITE/var/check_mk/core/history", ignoring the rest! 
2021-12-03 09:30:37 [3] [client 1] more than 500000 lines in "/omd/sites/$OMD_SITE/var/check_mk/core/history", ignoring the rest! 
2021-12-03 09:30:42 [3] [client 2] more than 500000 lines in "/omd/sites/$OMD_SITE/var/check_mk/core/history", ignoring the rest! 
2021-12-03 09:30:42 [3] [client 1] more than 500000 lines in "/omd/sites/$OMD_SITE/var/check_mk/core/history", ignoring the rest! 


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