I have been having this issue crop up often. I am running an older(ish) version of influxdb and have compression enabled but the size of my db is monsterous! Is there anyway to set a policy that will delete content after a period of time? I’d rather not lose my data, but I need to get this managea…

Influxdb 1.8.3 in docker container DB taking up 225GB of space! Help!

LordOfTheSnow August 7, 2022, 7:44pm 2

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