Observium uses red, which is fixed size round robin database. You can find information about how it works online. Perhaps we should document this too.<br><br>Data usage for a single host shouldn&#39;t grow over time, except event log entries and the like.<br><br>For an installation of that size you might want to use ssd or solid state ram drives. Spindles just won&#39;t survive the I/o load.<br><br>Adam.<br><br>Michael Sweikata &lt;sweikatam1@nku.edu&gt; wrote:<br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I mentioned in a previous e-mail that we&#8217;re rolling out a deployment of Observium, and we absolutely love the product. I know that it&#8217;s designed as a historical data gathering tool, but I am concerned about the storage requirements for
 the system. I have approximately 600 routers and switches on my campus, and eventually would like to get my servers involved (pushing the device count beyond two-thousand), and I&#8217;m concerned at the storage requirements for this. I couldn&#8217;t find this information
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does Observium have any kind of roll-over archiving for device history beyond a certain point, or will it continually just grow the data in the files?<o:p></o:p></p>
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