Binary log files growing extremely fast

Hi Team,

We are using MySQL 8.0.36 in production servers. Can see in one of our master server’s binary logs are growing Fastly (2 to 3 binlogs are creating in between seconds).

Below the binary log config:
max_binlog_size = 100M
binlog_format = ‘MIXED’

While checking the binlog file, we can see the below type of data is written and which is creating this scenario.

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BINLOG ’
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Bgb8A/wDeAD8A/wD/AOgAJABkAEG/vn/AQEBAAID/P8AphrqMw==
lYXMZR+xMPkCfh8AAOgWBgAAAH07AAAAAAAAAgAZ//////////8ICQAAAQAAAAAAAAAqgWUAks8P
EwBJbnN1cmFuY2VQYXltZW50RW9iTYnfABwAdG90YWxfcGF0aWVudF9yZXNwb25zaWJpbGl0eQQA
NzUuMJmyawQqAoghmbJrBCoCiCEBks8PHQAzX0xBQy03NDE2NzlfMjAyMzEyMThfMjIwNzk3Mglv
cmJvZ3JhcGgmAENBUkJPTiBIRUFMVEggTUVESUNBTCBHUk9VUCBPRiBGTE9SSURBJgBDQVJCT04g
SEVBTFRIIE1FRElDQUwgR1JPVVAgT0YgRkxPUklEQSIkBgAMAExBS0VXT09EIElQQYwGAAARcmV2
YXRoaS5uYWRhcmFqYW4RAFJldmF0aGkgTmFkYXJhamFuIAByZXZhdGhpLm5hZGFyYWphbkBndWlk
ZWhvdXNlLmNvbZmyawQqAAAACAkAAAEAAAAAAAAAKoFlAJLPDxMASW5zdXJhbmNlUGF5bWVudEVv
Yk2J3wAcAHRvdGFsX3BhdGllbnRfcmVzcG9uc2liaWxpdHkEADc1LjCZsmsEKgKIIZmyawQqAogh
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AAACAAAAAAAAACqBZQCSzw8TAEluc3VyYW5jZVBheW1lbnRFb2JNid8AEABwbGFjZV9vZl9zZXJ2
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==

Please note that we enabled the SSL between application and DB servers using MySQL certificate and key files.

Please help out to resolve this issue as which is impacting the server disk utilization.

Thanks,
Sujith VG.

@SujithGopalakrishnan,
max_binlog_size = 100M This is a big reason. Why is this set so small? Typically you see this as 1G to keep the number of binlogs low.

You can decode those contents using mysqlbinlog -vv --base64-output=decode-rows to determine what exactly is using up so much space.