Default IP log retention time

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How long does Discourse keep IP logs by default?
Thanks

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It is listed in our privacy policy which is linked at the bottom of every discourse.org webpage.

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I saw those as I was editing my privacy policy; I wasn’t sure whether they were the defaults or specific to meta.discourse.org.

Good to know. Thanks

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Old topic, but a good searchable query.

I just found that on my stock self-hosted Discourse instance, rotation is “daily” and retention is 7 days (“rotate 7”):

> 
> less /etc/logrotate.d/nginx

/var/log/nginx/*.log {
  daily
  missingok
  rotate 7
  compress
  delaycompress
  create 0644 www-data www-data
  sharedscripts
  postrotate
    sv 1 nginx
  endscript
}

Nice reference here: logrotate command in Linux with examples (linuxconfig.org)

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