Data Retention

Metrics & Logs uses disk space based on the number of entities and the configured retention. You need to keep in mind, that we automatically inflate the time series data base based on all possible metrics that can be received by an entity over the configured retention.

That means that storing data over 30 days instead of 7 days automatically consumes disk space from day 1.

If you want to change the data retention, you can use our web administration interface.

Some important tips:

• Data retention should always be a multiple of the retention before, so 20sec:2h, 60sec:6h, 4min:24h aso.
• Never use 20sec:2h, 30sec:6h, 50sec:25h!
• Data retention should never be duplicated: like 20sec:2h, 20sec:6h, 20sec:24h
• Data retention should never be lower than the retention before: 20sec:4h, 6min:8h, 2min:24h

The following video shows the use of our data retention section to customize the data granularity and duration. Please keep in mind that high granularity (i. e. 20 seconds over 7 day, 1minute over 2 years) require disk space and can slow down dashboard performance on slower storage.

Despite the fact, that all retention can be changed, we provide a default setting out-of-the box. Please contact [email protected] if you have questions about retention settings.

VMware

Data Type	Data Interval	Duration
VMware Configuration	10 minutes	1 day
VMware Configuration	90 minutes	7 days
VMware Configuration	180 minutes	45 days
VMware Performance	20 seconds	2 hours
VMware Performance	2 minutes	8 hours
VMware Performance	4 minutes	12 hours
VMware Performance	12 minutes	24 hours
VMware Performance	24 minutes	2 days
VMware Performance	96 minutes	7 days
VMware Performance	192 minutes	45 days

NetApp

Data Type	Data Interval	Duration
NetApp Capacity	15 minutes	100 days
NetApp Capacity	1 day	5 year
NetApp Performance	30 seconds	35 days
NetApp Performance	5 minutes	100 days
NetApp Performance	15 minutes	395 days
NetApp Performance	1 hours	5 years

DataCore

Data Type	Data Interval	Duration
DataCore	60 seconds	35 days
DataCore	5 minutes	100 days
DataCore	15 minutes	395 days
DataCore	5 minutes	100 days
DataCore	15 minutes	395 days
DataCore	1 hours	5 years