The Audit Log capacity error message

[Ben Radlinski]

Updated Confluence Server from 7.4 to 7.10 this weekend and the process went fine however the Audit log did some serious auditing during the update and filled the audit log. I lowered the retention period to 6 months down from infinity, as instructed in this technote but the error is still showing in the server health page. Is there a way to purge more of the audit messages?

[Gonchik Tsymzhitov]

Hi! 

set short retention period :)  ? 

[Naveen kumar]

Hi @Ben Radlinski did the issue got resolved 

[Naveen kumar]

Hi @Gonchik Tsymzhitov we tried setting the retention period to less years but we are loosing a lot of data , should we have to take a backup in db or any separate file will be existing in server side to take a backup or how can i proceed further please help .

[Ben Radlinski]

I'm checking my notes and I believe it finally cleared itself out and stopped producing the error 2-3 days after I set the retention period to 6 months.

[Naveen kumar]

HI @Ben Radlinski can you confirm how you have taken backup , so that i can try the same method