Change the default retention period in Openshift Logging

Solution Verified - Updated 14 Jun 2024

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Environment

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP)
  • 4
• Red Hat OpenShift Logging (RHOL)
  • 5

Issue

• Is it possible to tune the default OpenShift Logging retention period?

Resolution

Elasticsearch

For configuring the retention period in Elasticsearch refer to [configuring log retention time](https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.14/logging/log_storage/logging-config-es-store.html#cluster-logging-elasticsearch-retention_logging-config-es-store).

For Elasticsearch, it is also possible to configure log retention per namespace for OpenShift Elasticsearch log store, and configure log retention on OpenShift Elasticsearch operator using the maxSize parameter.

LokiStack

For configuring the retention period in LokiStack refer to [enabling stream-based retention with Loki](https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.14/logging/log_storage/cluster-logging-loki.html#logging-loki-retention_cluster-logging-loki).

Root Cause

It is possible to configure the log retention in both Elasticsearch and LokiStack.

SBR

• Shift
• Shift Monitoring

Product(s)

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
• Red Hat OpenShift Logging

Components

• elasticsearch
• loki

Category

• Learn more

Tags

• elasticsearch
• logging
• ocp_4
• openshift
• Shift_elasticsearch
• shift_logging
• shift_loki
• storage

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