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sam

11/02/2022, 7:44 AM
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.
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nitya-signoz

11/02/2022, 7:48 AM
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/
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sam

11/02/2022, 8:53 AM
how can we back up the production data
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Ankit Nayan

11/02/2022, 10:57 AM
@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.
There is another tool that might be helpful https://github.com/AlexAkulov/clickhouse-backup
but we have not tested rehydration of data from there
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sam

11/02/2022, 4:33 PM
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?
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Ankit Nayan

11/02/2022, 4:55 PM
that is the next upcoming feature...auth for otel-collectors
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Surya Oruganti

01/05/2023, 9:32 AM
@Ankit Nayan- is the auth for otel-collectors implemented now? I found this issue still open - https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/issues/1254
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Ankit Nayan

01/05/2023, 9:37 AM
not yet... you can expect it by end of Jan or early Feb 🙂
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Surya Oruganti

01/05/2023, 9:38 AM
thanks! I’d love to have it as soon as it is ready
just to be clear - is it auth for various mechanisms like oidc via keycloak / sso etc or simple token-based auth? I’d prefer the latter as it makes installs much simpler (similar to dd’s agent)
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Ankit Nayan

01/05/2023, 10:39 AM
it should be a revokable token based auth. The OIDC, SSO is at user level. Machine to machine auth should be fine using tokens
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Surya Oruganti

01/05/2023, 11:00 AM
Perfect - thanks!
Quick check - where are we on the simple token auth?
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Ankit Nayan

02/11/2023, 7:13 PM
couldn't pick this up for this sprint. We might pick this up for next sprint,
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Surya Oruganti

02/11/2023, 7:14 PM
That'd be great!