I didn't find that obvious.  Thanks Dario.  I agree that a 90 day data
retention window would be long enough to deal with any corrupt/invalid
data.


On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Dario Taraborelli <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Nov 4, 2014, at 2:08 PM, Nuria <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> No, database records are not affected. It should not impact your work with
> EL in any way as your findings come from the records in the database.
> The logs are used mainly for operational purposes by the dev team as
> maintainers of the system.
>
>
> this obviously means that any missing, corrupted or invalid data from the
> log DB can only be recovered within the data retention window, which seems
> reasonable to me.
>
> On Nov 4, 2014, at 11:55 AM, Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Hey guys,
>
> Sorry for the late response, but I'm still not sure what lives in
> */a/eventlogging/archive/**
>
> Will deleting from there affect what logs we have stored in the DB?  Is
> this an intermediate log storage place, a canonical one, etc.?
>
> What will we no longer be able to do after it is pruned?
>
> -Aaron
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> >Also, I'm not clear on the significance of the EL archive directory.
>> Can you remind me/direct me to documentation?
>> Well, the logs just record the incoming pipeline of events, we have used
>> them to troubleshoot operational issues in the past but the bulk of data
>> analysis in EL happens from data stored on database.
>>
>> Some info here:
>> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/EventLogging#Data_storage
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Nuria, can you specify which logs will be trimmed.
>>>
>>> Also, I'm not clear on the significance of the EL archive directory.
>>> Can you remind me/direct me to documentation?
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> To comply with our privacy policy we are going to purge logs in 1002
>>>> that are older than 90 days. Please let us know whether this is an issue.
>>>> We hope to have these changes done by the end of next week.
>>>>
>>>> A concrete example:
>>>>
>>>> Logs in, for example, the eventlogging archiving directory:
>>>>
>>>> @stat1002:/a/eventlogging/archive$
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> will be restricted to the last 90 days.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Nuria
>>>>
>>>>
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