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Retention Policy

Retention windows per signal type and tier.

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Retention windows per signal type and tier.

Signal	Tier	Retention	Backend
Metrics	standard	e.g. 13 months	Mimir
Logs	standard	e.g. 30 days	Loki
Traces	standard	e.g. 7 days	Tempo

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Logs Instrumentation Guide

How to instrument a service for **logs** on the ShipSolid observability platform.

05 — Platform Configuration

The knobs: collector configs, alert/dashboard catalogs, sampling and retention.

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Alert Rules Catalog

Catalog of alert rules managed by the platform (Terraform/config-driven).

Collector Config Templates

Reusable Alloy / OTel collector configuration templates by workload class.

Dashboard Catalog

Catalog of shared dashboards and the golden-signal starter pack.

Feature Flags & Config Management

How platform feature flags and configuration are managed and rolled out.