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Data retention

Data retention helps you save on storage costs by deleting old data. You can combine data retention with continuous aggregates to downsample your data.

In this section:

  • Learn about data retention before you start using it
  • Learn about data retention with continuous aggregates for downsampling data
  • Create a data retention policy
  • Manually drop chunks of data
  • Troubleshoot data retention

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