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How to set the data retention in Splunk?

dani9
Explorer

Where and how can I set the data retention on Splunk?

Because I have seen there are many bow to set it like telemetry, main etc..
So it's really not clear...

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ChrisG
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Here's a doc topic for you: Set a retirement and archiving policy in the Managing Indexers and Clusters of Indexers manual. Also see Archive indexed data.

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