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Extended Retention

Extended Retention

The Extended Retention feature in Stream Details allows you to retain specific segments of your stream data beyond the configured stream-level or global retention period.

When to Use Extended Retention

This feature is helpful when you want to preserve logs, metrics, or traces related to specific incidents or investigations.
For example, logs from a known incident that occurred last month, you can configure extended retention for those specific time ranges.

How to Apply Extended Retention

  1. From the Streams page, select the Explore icon from the Actions column.
  2. Navigate to Stream Details.
  3. Select the Extended Retention tab.
  4. Use the date selector to specify a time range in UTC. Click Apply.
  5. Click Update Settings to apply the retention policy.

Note

The data within the selected time range will be retained for an additional 3,650 days.

Streams Extended Retention

Note

  • Flexible Range Selection: You can add multiple time ranges. This enables retaining non-contiguous segments of data, such as a two-day period this week and another from the previous month.
  • Retain Within Allowed Window: You can only apply extended retention to data that currently exists. You cannot select ranges older than the current retention limit because that data has already been deleted and cannot be restored.