Clear stored data

The data in SUSE Observability is divided into four different sets:

  • Elasticsearch data

  • Kafka Topic data

  • StackGraph data

  • Metrics data

With this much data to store, it’s important to have the means to manage it. There is a standard 30 days data retention period set in SUSE Observability. This can be configured according to your needs using the SUSE Observability CLI. Find out more about SUSE Observability data retention.

Clear data manually

To clear stored data in SUSE Observability running on Kubernetes, it’s recommended to run a clean install:

  1. Uninstall SUSE Observability

  2. Remove all PVC’s

  3. Install SUSE Observability again using the same configuration as before, on Kubernetes or OpenShift.