Retention rule ignore timestamps from 1970

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Hi all,

why do retention rules ignore timestamps from measurements from 1970? I also found measurements from 2002.

greets

Helmut

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The time values are defined this way:

  • time = “Date and time of the event”

  • creationTime = “Date and time when the event was created in the database”).

The behaviour is this:

  • The retention deletion algorithm considers the ‘time’ field and scans backwards from the retention boundary (today - maximumAge).

  • Its maximum scan window is 10 years. Anything older than that is out of reach and will never be picked up automatically.

As I understand it, older timestamps are considered questionable and should be handled explicitly.