Metric Ingestion and Storage

Metric ingestion

Sumo does not ingest metric data that is more than one week old.

Metric retention

Metrics data is stored in Sumo Logic as raw, one minute, and one hour resolutions. It's retained according to the following retention policy:

Data Type Retained	Retention Period
Raw	7 days
1 minute resolution	30 days
1 hour resolution	13 months

For historical rollups (1 minute and 1 hour) Sumo calculates the max, min, avg, sum, and count values for a metric per minute or hour.