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@@ -468,5 +468,24 @@ $ psql -h localhost -U postgres dspacestatistics
 dspacestatistics=> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS items
 dspacestatistics-> (id INT PRIMARY KEY, views INT DEFAULT 0, downloads INT DEFAULT 0)
 ```
+## 2018-09-25
+
+- I deployed the DSpace statistics API on CGSpace, but when I ran the indexer it wanted to index 180,000 pages of item views
+- I'm not even sure how that's possible, as we only have 74,000 items!
+- I need to inspect the `id` values that are returned for views and cross check them with the `owningItem` values for bitstream downloads...
+- Also, I could try to check all IDs against the items table to see if they are actually items (perhaps the Solr `id` field doesn't correspond with *actual* DSpace items?)
+- I want to purge the bot hits from the Solr statistics core, as I am now realizing that I don't give a shit about tens of millions of hits by Google and Bing indexing my shit every day (at least not in Solr!)
+- CGSpace's Solr core has 150,000,000 documents in it... and it's still pretty fast to query, but it's really a maintenance and backup burden
+- DSpace Test currently has about 2,000,000 documents with `isBot:true` in its Solr statistics core, and the size on disk is 2GB (it's not much, but I have to test this somewhere!)
+- According to the [DSpace 5.x Solr documentation](https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC5x/SOLR+Statistics+Maintenance) I can use `dspace stats-util -f`, so let's try it:
+
+```
+$ dspace stats-util -f
+```
+
+- The command comes back after a few seconds and I still see 2,000,000 documents in the statistics core with `isBot:true`
+- I was just writing a message to the dspace-tech mailing list and then I decided to check the number of bot view events on DSpace Test again, and now it's 201 instead of 2,000,000, and statistics core is only 30MB now!
+- I will set the `logBots = false` property in `dspace/config/modules/usage-statistics.cfg` on DSpace Test and check if the number of `isBot:true` events goes up any more...
+- I restarted the server with `logBots = false` and after it came back up I see 266 events with `isBots:true` (maybe they were buffered)... I will check again tomorrow
 
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@@ -649,6 +649,29 @@ dspacestatistics=&gt; CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS items
 dspacestatistics-&gt; (id INT PRIMARY KEY, views INT DEFAULT 0, downloads INT DEFAULT 0)
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+<h2 id="2018-09-25">2018-09-25</h2>
+
+<ul>
+<li>I deployed the DSpace statistics API on CGSpace, but when I ran the indexer it wanted to index 180,000 pages of item views</li>
+<li>I&rsquo;m not even sure how that&rsquo;s possible, as we only have 74,000 items!</li>
+<li>I need to inspect the <code>id</code> values that are returned for views and cross check them with the <code>owningItem</code> values for bitstream downloads&hellip;</li>
+<li>Also, I could try to check all IDs against the items table to see if they are actually items (perhaps the Solr <code>id</code> field doesn&rsquo;t correspond with <em>actual</em> DSpace items?)</li>
+<li>I want to purge the bot hits from the Solr statistics core, as I am now realizing that I don&rsquo;t give a shit about tens of millions of hits by Google and Bing indexing my shit every day (at least not in Solr!)</li>
+<li>CGSpace&rsquo;s Solr core has 150,000,000 documents in it&hellip; and it&rsquo;s still pretty fast to query, but it&rsquo;s really a maintenance and backup burden</li>
+<li>DSpace Test currently has about 2,000,000 documents with <code>isBot:true</code> in its Solr statistics core, and the size on disk is 2GB (it&rsquo;s not much, but I have to test this somewhere!)</li>
+<li>According to the <a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC5x/SOLR+Statistics+Maintenance">DSpace 5.x Solr documentation</a> I can use <code>dspace stats-util -f</code>, so let&rsquo;s try it:</li>
+</ul>
+
+<pre><code>$ dspace stats-util -f
+</code></pre>
+
+<ul>
+<li>The command comes back after a few seconds and I still see 2,000,000 documents in the statistics core with <code>isBot:true</code></li>
+<li>I was just writing a message to the dspace-tech mailing list and then I decided to check the number of bot view events on DSpace Test again, and now it&rsquo;s 201 instead of 2,000,000, and statistics core is only 30MB now!</li>
+<li>I will set the <code>logBots = false</code> property in <code>dspace/config/modules/usage-statistics.cfg</code> on DSpace Test and check if the number of <code>isBot:true</code> events goes up any more&hellip;</li>
+<li>I restarted the server with <code>logBots = false</code> and after it came back up I see 266 events with <code>isBots:true</code> (maybe they were buffered)&hellip; I will check again tomorrow</li>
+</ul>
+
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