diff --git a/docs/guides/guide-vmcluster-multiple-retention-setup.md b/docs/guides/guide-vmcluster-multiple-retention-setup.md index 1e0da4e5d7..cf3ca24eda 100644 --- a/docs/guides/guide-vmcluster-multiple-retention-setup.md +++ b/docs/guides/guide-vmcluster-multiple-retention-setup.md @@ -5,26 +5,16 @@ Setup Victoria Metrics Cluster with support of multiple retention periods within one installation. -**Challenge** - -If you use [VictoriaMetrics enterprise](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/enterprise.html), then you can use -[retention filters](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#retention-filters) for applying multiple retentions -to distinct sets of time series and/or [tenants](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#multitenancy). - -Community version of VictoriaMetrics supports only one retention period via [-retentionPeriod](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#retention) command-line flag. -The following solution allows supporting multiple retentions for community version of VictoriaMetrics. - **Enterprise Solution** -Enterprise version of VictoriaMetrics Single and Cluster support multi-retention from version [1.83.0](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases/tag/v1.83.0) via `-retentionFilters` command-line flag. For example: - -* VictoriaMetrics Single - `-retentionFilter='{env=~"dev|staging"}:30d' -retentionPeriod=1y` -* VictoriaMetrics Cluster - `-retentionFilter='{vm_account_id=~"42.*"}:1d' -retentionFilter='{env=~"dev|staging"}:3d' -retentionPeriod=4w`. Labels `vm_account_id` and `vm_project_id` can be used to specify tenant and project respectively. - -Multi-retention is explained in more detail in corresponding docs for [single-node](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Single-server-VictoriaMetrics.html#multiple-retentions) and [cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#retention-filters) versions. +[VictoriaMetrics enterprise](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/enterprise.html) supports specifying multiple retentions +for distinct sets of time series and [tenants](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#multitenancy) +via [retention filters](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#retention-filters). **Open Source Solution** +Community version of VictoriaMetrics supports only one retention period per `vmstorage` node via [-retentionPeriod](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#retention) command-line flag. + A multi-retention setup can be implemented by dividing a [victoriametrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html) into logical groups with different retentions. Example: