Thank you, Simone. I am going to rebuild these boxes anyway, so I went ahead 
and purged the data.  I will keep an eye on this one to see if it swells up 
quickly compared to my others. These have been through several upgrades so no 
telling what I might have messed up.

-Ken


> On Sep 15, 2020, at 12:35 AM, Simone Mainardi <maina...@ntop.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Unused space used occupied by alerts_v*.db files is reclaimed every day at 
> midnight localtime. This should shrink the file automatically. The reason for 
> a huge size of the file can be:
> - Very large number of alerts
> - Old ntopng version which is not reclaiming space
> - ntopng not running at midnight localtime
> 
> By the way. It is safe to turn ntopng off and delete the file manually, if 
> you can afford losing generated alerts.
> 
> Simone
> 
>> On 14 Sep 2020, at 17:55, Ken Kirchner <k...@kirchners.com> wrote:
>> 
>> My /var/lib/ntopng/ directory seems to be consuming 8.1GB of space. Of that, 
>> 6.2GB seems to be in the /1/alerts/alerts_v20.db file.  Is this just a 
>> poorly named file that contains more than just alerts, or do I have some 
>> kind of serious problem?
>> 
>> -Ken
>> 
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