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Is there a way to force this? Or Delete all data and restart?

Which SigNoz version are you using @Jose Infazon? In latest version there are some improvements on retention.

0.17.0, the latest one. I've even block all incoming traffic so as not to have new traces and process the remaining one....still kept in that loop

You can connect to SQLite DB and clear TTL status table to allow updating retention setting. If you are using docker follow below steps: Connect to query-service

docker exec -it query-service sh

Run the following:

# install sqlite
apk update
apk add sqlite

# open sqlite with signoz.db
sqlite3 /var/lib/signoz/signoz.db

# (sqlite shell) check existing ttl status
select * from ttl_status;

# delete all rows of ttl_status
DELETE FROM ttl_status;