Sessions Payload Suddenly Much Bigger Only In Production

Hi,

All of a sudden the payload for sessions for my Laravel app has grown much bigger, more than 64 thousand characters, and this is only happening in production and not on my XAMPP server. I am hosting with Laravel Forge.

I am getting the following error for some requests:

SQLSTATE[22001]: String data, right truncated: 1406 Data too long for column 'payload' at row 1 (SQL: update sessions set payload = YToxODp7czo2....

Does anyone have an idea what is going on. Please help.