We noticed some plugins may cause a lot of CPU load. A solution is to disable a plugin that causes a lot of loads. However, sometimes it is great to still have at least report data for “All visits” but not segments. This way say 95% of the load is reduced while the biggest value might be still there.

When this is disabled for a plugin then:

Don’t archive any data for this plugin if the segment is not empty
In the report itself, when a segment is viewed and there is no data, then show a footer message in the report that viewing segments for this report are disabled.
Reports for “all visits” (the segment is empty) should still be archived regularly

Basic Setup for multiple plugins

[General]
disable_archiving_segment_for_plugins="Plugin1,Plugin2,Plugin3"

Where you can provide the name of plugins in a comma-separated list. Could also use an array if that makes it easier like

[General]
disable_archiving_segment_for_plugins[]="Plugin1"
disable_archiving_segment_for_plugins[]="Plugin1"
disable_archiving_segment_for_plugins[]="Plugin1"

You could also disable plugins with specific site IDs

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disable_archiving_segment_for_plugins[]="Plugin1"
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