How Long Does the XI keep historical data

[mkeey]

How Long Does the XI keep historical data on hosts & services?

[scottwilkerson]

This depends on your settings in Admin -> Performance Settings -> Databases -> NDOUtils Database section

The most relevant sections are
Max Log Entries Age:
Max Notifications Age:
Max State History Age:

Performance data is 4 years, and the nagios text based logs which are used for Availability report are kept forever.

[mkeey]

Thanks for the information. Since some logs are kept forever, it would probably be a good idea to monitor that file system. What is the directory path?

[mcapra]

This documentation provides a reasonably comprehensive description of the logs and their locations:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ptions.pdf

[scottwilkerson]

Thanks for the information. Since some logs are kept forever, it would probably be a good idea to monitor that file system. What is the directory path?

Specifically /usr/local/nagios/var/archives/