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What is historical data?

obiloki
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While researching exchanging licenses between servers I came across "Historical Data." What is historical Data?

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mattymo
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Data from the past.

Care to provide a bit more context? Maybe a link to what you were reading?

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I believe it is referring to machine data generated in the past and stored somewhere in bulk, ie an archive of syslog data or a collection of daily csv reports from the last year sitting in a directory..

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If it was in another context, let us know and we can help lead you to answer!

- MattyMo
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