diff --git a/common/ruletypes.h b/common/ruletypes.h
index f611d02bd..b523c5de4 100644
--- a/common/ruletypes.h
+++ b/common/ruletypes.h
@@ -1073,6 +1073,7 @@ RULE_CATEGORY(Logging)
 RULE_BOOL(Logging, PrintFileFunctionAndLine, false, "Ex: [World Server] [net.cpp::main:309] Loading variables...")
 RULE_BOOL(Logging, WorldGMSayLogging, true, "Relay worldserver logging to zone processes via GM say output")
 RULE_BOOL(Logging, PlayerEventsQSProcess, false, "Have query server process player events instead of world. Useful when wanting to use a dedicated server and database for processing player events on separate disk")
+RULE_STRING(Logging, PlayerEventsIgnoreGMCommands, "help,show", "This is a comma delimited list of commands to ignore when recording GM command player events.")
 RULE_INT(Logging, BatchPlayerEventProcessIntervalSeconds, 5, "This is the interval in which player events are processed in world or qs")
 RULE_INT(Logging, BatchPlayerEventProcessChunkSize, 10000, "This is the cap of events that can be inserted into the queue before a force flush. This is to keep from hitting MySQL max_allowed_packet and killing the connection")
 RULE_CATEGORY_END()
diff --git a/zone/command.cpp b/zone/command.cpp
index ada2bdf6f..d74d0bd4d 100644
--- a/zone/command.cpp
+++ b/zone/command.cpp
@@ -514,7 +514,15 @@ int command_realdispatch(Client *c, std::string message, bool ignore_status)
 		parse->EventPlayer(EVENT_GM_COMMAND, c, message, 0);
 	}
 
-	if (player_event_logs.IsEventEnabled(PlayerEvent::GM_COMMAND) && message != "#help") {
+	bool log_command = true;
+	for (auto &cmd: Strings::Split(RuleS(Logging, PlayerEventsIgnoreGMCommands), ",")) {
+		if (Strings::Contains(command, Strings::ToLower(cmd))) {
+			log_command = false;
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (player_event_logs.IsEventEnabled(PlayerEvent::GM_COMMAND) && log_command) {
 		auto e = PlayerEvent::GMCommandEvent{
 			.message = message,
 			.target = c->GetTarget() ? c->GetTarget()->GetName() : "NONE"