Hello, we are just evaluating to use Signoz. I do not seem to find what the retention rate for the data is and how Data can be backed up. Certain Data sets like traces are not really relevant after certain time, but metrics are relevant.

You can set the retention period on your own on the settings page. You can move data to cold storage as well. https://signoz.io/docs/userguide/retention-period/

how can we back up the production data

@sam what about enabling s3 config as mentioned in docs and set move to s3 time after which data will be moved to s3 from disk. And do not set any TTL which would otherwise delete data even s3.

Thanks, that is a good pointer. meanwhile we have the first demo landscape up and running. NExt question is: Is there a way to protect the Metics API. meaning can we set an API key which the clients which are sending data to SignOZ need to use in order to use the API?

that is the next upcoming feature...auth for otel-collectors

@Ankit Nayan- is the auth for otel-collectors implemented now? I found this issue still open - https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/issues/1254

not yet... you can expect it by end of Jan or early Feb 🙂

thanks! I’d love to have it as soon as it is ready

it should be a revokable token based auth. The OIDC, SSO is at user level. Machine to machine auth should be fine using tokens

Perfect - thanks!

couldn't pick this up for this sprint. We might pick this up for next sprint,

That'd be great!