service-perfdata.out consuming huge space

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rohithroki
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service-perfdata.out consuming huge space

Post by rohithroki »

Dear Team,

I have a file service-perfdata.out in the path /usr/local/nagios/var/ which is consuming around 30GB size.
Can i remove/trim the file.?Will there be any impact if i remove this file.
Kindly help me in fixing this.

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RKJ
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Re: service-perfdata.out consuming huge space

Post by Box293 »

Normally this file does not grow to this size as the performance data is processed and stored in rrd fgiles.

You can delete the file, it will not affect your monitoring.

You should investigate if your performance graphing is working, I suspect it is not.
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