From e2e3db93ea5711490c2dcd9d8f2415d76f6324cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nora Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 15:08:18 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Added clarification of retention policy based on community feedback No FAQ right now per discussion with Balaji. Addresses #231 --- content/v2.0/cloud/pricing-plans.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/content/v2.0/cloud/pricing-plans.md b/content/v2.0/cloud/pricing-plans.md index 65c160a02..7e2156751 100644 --- a/content/v2.0/cloud/pricing-plans.md +++ b/content/v2.0/cloud/pricing-plans.md @@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ Use this plan as much and as long as you want within the Free Plan rate limits: - **Writes:** 3MB every 5 minutes - **Query:** 30MB every 5 minutes - **Storage:** 72-hour data retention +{{% note %}} +Data retention is determined by the time at which data is written to InfluxDB; not the timestamp of the data point. You can write data with timestamps older than 72 hours, but 72 hours after that data is written, it is evicted. +{{% /note %}} - **Series cardinality:** 10,000 - **Create:** - Up to 5 dashboards