Title: Change logs location
Last modified: September 22, 2017

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# Change logs location

 *  Resolved [hilar47](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hilar47/)
 * (@hilar47)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-logs-location/)
 * Is it possible to write the logs not to the database, but to an external file?
   
   The plugins writes gazillions of entries on the WordFence tables and this drastically
   affects the site performance.
 * Any chance of changing the logs from the database to a file? If yes then how 
   do I do that?
    -  This topic was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by [hilar47](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hilar47/).

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 *  [wfyann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfyann/)
 * (@wfyann)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-logs-location/#post-9529376)
 * Hi [@hilar47](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hilar47/),
 * At the moment, there is no possibilities to change the location of the activity
   log which is indeed currently stored in the database.
 * What I suggest in this case is to turn off the “[Enable Live Traffic View](https://docs.wordfence.com/en/Wordfence_options?#Enable_Live_Traffic_View)”
   feature to see if it helps with the site performance.

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