diff --git a/api/apps/api/src/modules/geo-features/import/features-amounts-upload.service.ts b/api/apps/api/src/modules/geo-features/import/features-amounts-upload.service.ts
index acc120f5dc..40aa65eaf6 100644
--- a/api/apps/api/src/modules/geo-features/import/features-amounts-upload.service.ts
+++ b/api/apps/api/src/modules/geo-features/import/features-amounts-upload.service.ts
@@ -72,7 +72,10 @@ export class FeatureAmountUploadService {
     projectId: string;
     userId: string;
   }): Promise<Left<any> | Right<GeoFeature[]>> {
-    await this.events.submittedEvent(data.projectId, data);
+    //Because feature CSV files are bound to be increasingly larger, this can cause problems when trying to save a big
+    //JSONB value into postgres eventually crashing due to an memory error, so the CSV file is ignored for the api event
+    const { fileBuffer, ...apiEventData } = data;
+    await this.events.submittedEvent(data.projectId, apiEventData);
 
     const apiQueryRunner = this.apiDataSource.createQueryRunner();
     const geoQueryRunner = this.geoDataSource.createQueryRunner();