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Log retention for 1 year

Isaor
New Member

Hello,

How it´s possible to retain the logs of my splunk during 1 year?. I need to modify a parameter?. Whats is the default time of retention of logs? and how can i validate that.

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Isaor
New Member

Hello,

I check the index.conf, but i don´t see my index that i created.

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kmugglet
Communicator

Hi @isaor,

The retention times are set in indexes.conf
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Indexesconf

For the retention time you set the frozenTimePeriodInSecs

This is the example for the cold to frozen retention period.

    frozenTimePeriodInSecs = <nonnegative integer>
    * Number of seconds after which indexed data rolls to frozen.
    * If you do not specify a coldToFrozenScript, data is deleted when rolled to
      frozen.
    * IMPORTANT: Every event in the DB must be older than frozenTimePeriodInSecs
      before it will roll. Then, the DB will be frozen the next time splunkd
      checks (based on rotatePeriodInSecs attribute).
    * Highest legal value is 4294967295
    * Defaults to 188697600 (6 years).

For 1 year, you would set the value to 31556926 seconds

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