MetricBase retention policies

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  • Updated February 1, 2024
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    • Retain data in MetricBase according to retention policies.

    Table 1. MetricBase Retention Policies
    Policy Description
    Coarse

    This policy retains data for 1 week at 1-hour period, 1 month at 2-hour period, and 13 months at 1-day period.

    This policy is suitable for metrics that change less often or metrics that do not require high resolution, such as disk usage.
    Dense This policy retains data for 8 days at 1-minute period, 94 days at 10-minute period, and 13 months at 1-hour period.

    This policy is suitable for metrics that require higher resolution for longer terms.
    High

    This policy retains data for 1 week at 1-minute period, 1 month at 10-minute period, and 13 months at 1-hour period.

    This policy is suitable for metrics that require higher resolution for longer terms.
    Medium

    This policy retains data for 1 week at 10-minute period, 1 month at 30-minute period, and 13 months at 2-hour period.

    This policy is suitable for metrics that change less often such as job processing throughput.
    Medium High This policy retains data for 13 months at 1-hour period.
    Operational Intelligence Operational Intelligence (OI) policy retains data for 8 days at 1-minute period, 94 days at 10-minute period, and 13 months at 1-hour period.
    Sparse This policy retains data for 13 months at 1-day period.
    Ultra Dense This policy retains data for 1 day at 10-second period, 3 months at 1-minute period, and 1 year at 1-hour period.