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The The ID Service stores metrics data to an InfluxDB service with a default retention policy of 24 hours. This may not be long enough time for your use cases. This document will show with examples how to store metrics data for a longer period of time, and how to configure Grafana to display it.
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The theory
To store measurements for a longer time, it must be stored with a Retention Policy of desired length. It doesn’t make sense to store ALL data for the specified time: When Grafana shows values from a month in a graph, it physically cannot display data at 50 millisecond accuracy. Having a lot of data at very short intervals takes a lot of processing, bandwidth and disk space. So you must think about downsampling the data as well.
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