Retention Policy

sanjubaba · ‎03-12-2021

How to setup retention policies for indexes?

manjunathmeti · ‎03-12-2021

hi @sanjubaba,
Check this: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.2/Indexer/Setaretirementandarchivingpolicy

jacobpevans · ‎03-12-2021

Greetings @sanjubaba,

See below for the two relevant pieces of documentation regarding setting index retention policies:

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Indexer/Setaretirementandarchivingpolicy

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Indexesconf

Cheers,
Jacob

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