Keep logs for a set number of days

Logs grew forever. A daily prune-logs cron now deletes entries older
than the app setting logs_keep_days (Settings > General, super admin;
default AppData.LogsKeepDays, 90), with an index on logs.created_at.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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2026-10-28 04:49:25 +01:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
parent 5f96004f13
commit ba9705980e
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import grabSuperAdminUser from "@/src/functions/backend/backups/grab-super-admin-user";
import grabLogRetentionOverview from "@/src/functions/backend/db/app-settings/grab-logs-keep-days";
import saveAppSetting from "@/src/functions/backend/db/app-settings/save-app-setting";
import logEvent, { grabRequestIP } from "@/src/functions/backend/logger";
import { LogsKeepDaysSettingKey } from "@/src/dict/log-categories";
import { SaveLogRetentionRequestSchema } from "@/src/schemas/log-schema";
import type { LogRetentionOverview } from "@/src/types";
import AppError from "@/src/utils/app-error";
import parseWithSchema from "@/src/utils/parse-with-schema";
import safeErrorMessage from "@/src/utils/safe-error-message";
import type { APIResponseObject, BunextAPIRouteHandler } from "@moduletrace/bunext/types";
/**
* Super admin only: how many days logs are kept before the daily prune
* deletes them. Zero puts the code's default back.
*/
export const handler: BunextAPIRouteHandler<APIResponseObject<LogRetentionOverview>> = async ({ req, body }) => {
try {
if (req.method != "POST") throw new AppError(`Method not allowed`);
const user = await grabSuperAdminUser({ req });
if (!user?.id) throw new AppError(`Only a super admin can change how long logs are kept.`);
const { keep_days } = parseWithSchema({ schema: SaveLogRetentionRequestSchema, data: body });
await saveAppSetting({
key: LogsKeepDaysSettingKey,
value: keep_days > 0 ? String(keep_days) : null,
});
await logEvent({
title: "Log retention changed",
category: "system",
user_id: user.id,
plain_text: `User #${user.id} set logs to be kept for ${keep_days || "the default number of"} days.`,
metadata: { keep_days },
ip_address: grabRequestIP(req),
});
return { success: true, singleRes: await grabLogRetentionOverview() };
} catch (error: unknown) {
return { success: false, msg: safeErrorMessage({ error }) };
}
};