What is an age-out policy?

Age-out policy

An age-out policy is a retention policy for stored data. Data older than the retention period is purged from the database.

NSP creates a policy for each telemetry type, a policy for baselines, and a policy for indicators.

The following table describes the default and maximum age-out values for different policy types. For the baseline and indicator age-out policies, the default and maximum values depend on the data storage type, Postgres or AuxDb.

Age-out policy type

Data storage type

Default age-out value

Maximum age-out value

Telemetry policies

Postgres

4 h

9672 h (403 days)

AuxDb

24 h

9672 h (403 days)

Baseline policy and Indicator policy

Postgres

35 days

35 days

AuxDb

90 days

403 days