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iRule
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Apr 24, 2021

Increasing ASM log capacity in F5

Dear Community,

The default capacity of storing ASM event logs in F5 is 2GB. If we increase this capacity to 4GB, please inform will it cause negative impact on health and performance of F5?

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ASM Advanced WAF
BIG-IP
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  • Dario_Garrido's avatar
    Dario_Garrido
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    Apr 25, 2021

    Hello iRule.

    You should use an external logging instead of increasing the ASM DB size, because that could impact the system performance.

    https://devcentral.f5.com/s/question/0D51T00006i7ggB/changing-the-default-asm-db-log-size-and-the-default-number-of-entries

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    The reasons are shown next:

    https://devcentral.f5.com/s/question/0D51T00006zslVc/asm-event-log-with-local-storage

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    How to rollback to the legacy ASM v11.6 logging:

    https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K16053

    https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K10651

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    Regards

    Dario.