# Logging checked\_for\_custom\_avatar
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/logging-checked-for-custom-avatar/23580
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [January 1, 2015, 6:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/logging-checked-for-custom-avatar/23580 "2015-01-01T18:24:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2015, 6:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/logging-checked-for-custom-avatar/23580/1 "2015-01-01T18:24:53Z")
I just exported all my logs, and found something interesting.
`checked_for_custom_avatar` accounted for 42,525 lines,
`check_email` accounted for 364 (maybe that gets purged?)
the other 880 items were all quite varied.
I wonder if we could skip logging `checked_for_custom_avatar` ?
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2015, 6:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/logging-checked-for-custom-avatar/23580/2 "2015-01-01T18:27:02Z")
> [@watchmanmonitor](#):
>
> 42,525 lines
Whew! sounds like it could use it’s own log file.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2015, 9:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/logging-checked-for-custom-avatar/23580/3 "2015-01-01T21:35:15Z")
Yes, this seems absurd, can we remove logging this @zogstrip?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2015, 1:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/logging-checked-for-custom-avatar/23580/4 "2015-01-02T01:43:06Z")
I checked into this, and this is a **per-user history entry** that verifies we looked up their avatar.
```ruby
context "a user who has been checked for a custom avatar" do
before do
UserHistory.create!(action: UserHistory.actions[:checked_for_custom_avatar], target_user_id: user.id )
end
# Finally, we don't check users whose avatars haven't been examined
return unless UserHistory.exists_for_user?(@user, :checked_for_custom_avatar)
```
Which logs are you referring to? How are you exporting the _per-user_ history logs? These are not under `admin/logs` AFAIK.
Also do you have 45,525 users? There should only be one of these records per user.
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2015, 2:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/logging-checked-for-custom-avatar/23580/5 "2015-01-02T02:07:26Z")
I was at [our forum]/admin/logs/staff\_action\_logs
I clicked the Export, and a while later received a notice that the export was ready.
We have about 500 users total.
I just did it again, same 2.4mb file, some 43785 lines.
I see that they mostly stopped in June of 2014… so maybe this was an old bug?
I wonder if there’s a reasonable way to purge all those?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2015, 3:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/logging-checked-for-custom-avatar/23580/6 "2015-01-02T03:47:30Z")
Let me export our staff logs and get back to you.
edit: confirmed, we have a zillion of these rows as well in Staff Action Logs. That stopped about 5-27-2014. Looks like some kind of bug in the export process and/or an issue with the number of those records in the individual user histories. @techapj is having a look.
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2015, 5:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/logging-checked-for-custom-avatar/23580/7 "2015-01-02T05:52:55Z")
Fixed:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/3074](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/3074)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2015, 11:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/logging-checked-for-custom-avatar/23580/8 "2015-01-02T11:26:11Z")
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2015, 11:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/logging-checked-for-custom-avatar/23580/9 "2015-01-02T11:39:00Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
>
> That stopped about 5-27-2014.
That’s because that entry is not used anymore and has been removed in
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/6c1c8be79433f87bef9d768da7b8fa4ec9bb18d7](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/6c1c8be79433f87bef9d768da7b8fa4ec9bb18d7)
I pushed a database migration to remove these useless user history entries
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/c57a1b393f0fefb9e3094514fa03c9c5046cc6f9](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/c57a1b393f0fefb9e3094514fa03c9c5046cc6f9)