Title: Performance Overhead
Last modified: June 4, 2019

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# Performance Overhead

 *  Resolved [dciphered](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dciphered/)
 * (@dciphered)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-overhead/)
 * Dear Support,
 * Firstly, excellent plugin, well done on a great job.
 * I would like to ask about the performance overhead that this plugin generates
   and whether there are any available metrics that show the impact that it generates
   on database write events?
 * Does the plugin in fact log events to the database in real-time or does it keep
   a local file based log on the web server? My setup has 2 WP front end servers
   talking to a seperate DB instance in the backend and I would like to ensure that
   we’re not generating large levels of write traffic to the database by real-time
   logging of events.
 * Could you please help clarify how exactly the plugin logs and stores events?
 * Many thanks in advance.

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 *  Plugin Author [Pär Thernström](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eskapism/)
 * (@eskapism)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-overhead/#post-11643551)
 * The plugin listens to WordPress events, for example post edits, logins, or plugin
   updates, and directly when these events are fired by WordPress the plugin writes
   to the database. So one plugin is updated = the plugin writes two rows to the
   database to store this info. Same with user logins or post edits and so on. These
   writes are quick and I’ve never seen any slow down because of it. For most sites
   users really don’t do _that_ much activity… The only time I can think of it is
   if your website is brute force attacked and a large amount of login attempts 
   is made at the same time. But then I guess you should have a plugin like Jetpack
   that prevents this from happening.

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