diff --git a/services/asterisk-digital-ocean.sh b/services/asterisk-digital-ocean.sh
index 9a30bb2..2fd381f 100755
--- a/services/asterisk-digital-ocean.sh
+++ b/services/asterisk-digital-ocean.sh
@@ -270,6 +270,29 @@ _asterisk_do_refresh_vendor_files() {
     fi
 }
 
+# ── Shared: log rotation for logs/full (unbounded otherwise) ──────────────
+# Confirmed live: with no rotation, this file grew to 1.4GB in about 3 days
+# on a busy box (SIP scanning noise is constant on the public internet) —
+# a real disk-exhaustion risk on a small droplet, and separately made the
+# Security Dashboard balloon to 600+MB RAM/GBs of swap reading it every 30s
+# before that was fixed to only read a bounded tail (see
+# services/security-dashboard.sh). copytruncate avoids needing to signal
+# Asterisk to reopen its log file — it has a long-held file descriptor on
+# this path and no reload mechanism this installer can reach from the host.
+_asterisk_do_write_logrotate() {
+    local _ea_dir="$1"
+    cat > /etc/logrotate.d/asterisk-digital-ocean << LOGROTATE
+$_ea_dir/logs/full {
+    size 100M
+    rotate 5
+    compress
+    missingok
+    notifempty
+    copytruncate
+}
+LOGROTATE
+}
+
 # ── Shared: docker-compose.yml ─────────────────────────────────────────────
 # Same reasoning as above — one copy of the template used by both fresh
 # installs and updates. Must be called with $PWD already at $EA_DIR.
@@ -379,6 +402,7 @@ install_asterisk-digital-ocean() {
 
                 _asterisk_do_refresh_vendor_files
                 _asterisk_do_write_compose
+                _asterisk_do_write_logrotate "$EA_DIR"
 
                 log_info "Rebuilding and restarting containers..."
                 if docker compose up -d --build --force-recreate; then
@@ -447,6 +471,7 @@ install_asterisk-digital-ocean() {
     cd "$EA_DIR" || return 1
 
     _asterisk_do_refresh_vendor_files
+    _asterisk_do_write_logrotate "$EA_DIR"
 
     # ── DigitalOcean droplet detection ────────────────────────────────────────
     # A droplet's own public IP/ID are readable, unauthenticated, from the
diff --git a/services/security-dashboard.sh b/services/security-dashboard.sh
index eb6767d..d25bef8 100644
--- a/services/security-dashboard.sh
+++ b/services/security-dashboard.sh
@@ -659,18 +659,43 @@ TIER_RE = re.compile(r"^(internal|restricted|full)$")
 NUMBER_RE = re.compile(r"^\d{11}$")
 
 
+SECURITY_LOG_TAIL_BYTES = 2 * 1024 * 1024  # comfortably enough for 5000 lines
+
+
 def parse_security_log(limit=200):
     """Tail ASTERISK_LOG and return the most recent SecurityEvent lines,
     newest first, as dicts. Missing file / no lines -> empty list, never an
-    error — this is a convenience view, not load-bearing."""
+    error — this is a convenience view, not load-bearing.
+
+    Reads only a bounded byte window from the END of the file, not the whole
+    thing — this log is Asterisk's unrotated console/security output and can
+    grow to multiple GB. The previous version did f.readlines() (loads the
+    ENTIRE file into memory) before slicing the last 5000 lines, and this
+    tab polls every 30 seconds from the browser. Confirmed live: on a 1GB-RAM
+    droplet with a 1.4GB log file, that ballooned this "stdlib only,
+    deliberately lightweight" process to 677MB RSS / 1.8GB peak swap, which
+    left CrowdSec unable to even start (boot timeout) and contributed
+    directly to the droplet becoming unresponsive. Bounding this to a fixed
+    ~2MB window keeps memory use constant regardless of how large the log
+    file grows.
+    """
     if not ASTERISK_LOG or not os.path.isfile(ASTERISK_LOG):
         return []
     events = []
     try:
-        with open(ASTERISK_LOG, "r", errors="replace") as f:
-            lines = f.readlines()[-5000:]  # cap how much we ever scan
+        with open(ASTERISK_LOG, "rb") as f:
+            f.seek(0, os.SEEK_END)
+            size = f.tell()
+            start = max(0, size - SECURITY_LOG_TAIL_BYTES)
+            f.seek(start)
+            data = f.read()
     except OSError:
         return []
+    text = data.decode("utf-8", errors="replace")
+    lines = text.splitlines()
+    if start > 0 and lines:
+        lines = lines[1:]  # first line is likely truncated mid-line
+    lines = lines[-5000:]
     for line in lines:
         if "SecurityEvent=" not in line:
             continue