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How long does Splunk Cloud store logs?

will_paxata
Explorer

I am using Splunk Cloud. Assuming the total storage limit is never reached, how long are my logs stored for?

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ChrisG
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

You configure data retention for each of your indexes. See Data policies in the Splunk Cloud User Manual.

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ChrisG
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

You configure data retention for each of your indexes. See Data policies in the Splunk Cloud User Manual.

will_paxata
Explorer

Thanks for pointing that out.

Do you know what the default max age of events? I know that the total max size is specified by the Splunk Cloud license, but I cannot find any information on the default max age.

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ChrisG
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Looking in the Splunk Enterprise Managing Indexers and Clusters of Indexers manual, the Set a retirement and archiving policy topic says that the default value of frozenTimePeriodInSecs is 188697600 seconds, or approximately 6 years.

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will_paxata
Explorer

I'll assume that is the default for Splunk Cloud as well. Thank you, ChrisG!

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