diff --git a/src/NzbDrone.Core/Instrumentation/DatabaseTarget.cs b/src/NzbDrone.Core/Instrumentation/DatabaseTarget.cs
index 0fe6c4a63..a2e36a757 100644
--- a/src/NzbDrone.Core/Instrumentation/DatabaseTarget.cs
+++ b/src/NzbDrone.Core/Instrumentation/DatabaseTarget.cs
@@ -28,9 +28,11 @@ namespace NzbDrone.Core.Instrumentation
 
         public void Register()
         {
-            Rule = new LoggingRule("*", LogLevel.Info, this);
+            var target = new SlowRunningAsyncTargetWrapper(this) { TimeToSleepBetweenBatches = 500 };
 
-            LogManager.Configuration.AddTarget("DbLogger", new AsyncTargetWrapper(this));
+            Rule = new LoggingRule("*", LogLevel.Info, target);
+
+            LogManager.Configuration.AddTarget("DbLogger", target);
             LogManager.Configuration.LoggingRules.Add(Rule);
             LogManager.ConfigurationReloaded += OnLogManagerOnConfigurationReloaded;
             LogManager.ReconfigExistingLoggers();
diff --git a/src/NzbDrone.Core/Instrumentation/SlowRunningAsyncTargetWrapper.cs b/src/NzbDrone.Core/Instrumentation/SlowRunningAsyncTargetWrapper.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0998e0260
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/NzbDrone.Core/Instrumentation/SlowRunningAsyncTargetWrapper.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Text;
+using System.Threading;
+using NLog.Common;
+using NLog.Targets;
+using NLog.Targets.Wrappers;
+
+namespace NzbDrone.Core.Instrumentation
+{
+    [Target("SlowRunningAsyncTargetWrapper", IsWrapper = true)]
+    public class SlowRunningAsyncTargetWrapper : AsyncTargetWrapper
+    {
+        private int _state; // 0 = idle, 1 = timer active, 2 = timer active + possibly more work
+
+        public SlowRunningAsyncTargetWrapper(Target wrappedTarget)
+            : base(wrappedTarget)
+        {
+
+        }
+
+        protected override void StopLazyWriterThread()
+        {
+            if (Interlocked.Exchange(ref _state, 0) > 0)
+            {
+                base.StopLazyWriterThread();
+            }
+        }
+
+        protected override void Write(AsyncLogEventInfo logEvent)
+        {
+            base.Write(logEvent);
+
+            if (Interlocked.Exchange(ref _state, 2) <= 0)
+            { // Timer was idle. Starting.
+                base.StartLazyWriterTimer();
+            }
+        }
+
+        protected override void StartLazyWriterTimer()
+        {
+            // Is executed when the background task has finished processing the queue. (also executed by base.InitializeTarget once)
+
+            if (Interlocked.Decrement(ref _state) == 1)
+            { // There might be more work. Restart timer.
+                base.StartLazyWriterTimer();
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/NzbDrone.Core/NzbDrone.Core.csproj b/src/NzbDrone.Core/NzbDrone.Core.csproj
index 6a783eda4..672a17623 100644
--- a/src/NzbDrone.Core/NzbDrone.Core.csproj
+++ b/src/NzbDrone.Core/NzbDrone.Core.csproj
@@ -641,6 +641,7 @@
     <Compile Include="Instrumentation\LogRepository.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Instrumentation\LogService.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Instrumentation\ReconfigureLogging.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="Instrumentation\SlowRunningAsyncTargetWrapper.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Jobs\ScheduledTaskRepository.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Jobs\ScheduledTask.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Jobs\Scheduler.cs" />