Data retention period for NetFlow monitoring
The following table provides an overview of the retention period for NetFlow monitoring data stored in Site24x7.
Attribute
| Data Type
| Retention Period
|
Device Traffic & Interfaces In/Out Traffic Data
| 5min Average
Hourly Average
Daily Average | 30 days
1 year
5 years
|
Application Data
| 10min Average
Hourly Average Daily Average
Weekly Average
| 6 hours 1 day
4 weeks
1 year
|
Conversation Data (Source, Destination, QoS)
| 10min Average
Hourly Average Daily Average
Weekly Average
| 2 hours
12 hours
2 weeks
1 year
|

Site24x7 collects the top 100 conversations during each data collection cycle and retains only the top 300 entries after each aggregation.
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