What does Alertmanager's data.retention arguemnt mean exactly?

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Shubham Choudhary

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Mar 15, 2020, 8:03:24 AM3/15/20
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What exactly is meant by Alertmanager's "data.retention"?

Alertmanager store live-alerts and silences only under nflog and silences files respectively.

Is retention meant for that?

Christian Hoffmann

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Mar 15, 2020, 8:20:23 AM3/15/20
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Hi,
Yes, to my understand, it is. See here:

https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager/blob/134c3c0ed9825395676bd5ba8cadf18e2d0e853b/cmd/alertmanager/main.go#L188
https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager/blob/134c3c0ed9825395676bd5ba8cadf18e2d0e853b/cmd/alertmanager/main.go#L256
https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager/blob/134c3c0ed9825395676bd5ba8cadf18e2d0e853b/cmd/alertmanager/main.go#L277

Kind regards,
Christian
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