Title: Improvement: Options size monitoring
Author: WordPress VIP Documentation
Published: March 30, 2021
Last modified: August 5, 2025

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 3. Improvement: Options size monitoring

# Improvement: Options size monitoring

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 30 March 2021

13:04:04 GMT+0000

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We have systems in place that alert us when the size of the options grows too big
to fit into a Memcached server entry to prevent increased pressure on the Memcached
server and limit potential performance degradation.

We made changes to alerting logic to prevent false positives.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2047](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2047)