Camunda Zeebe indices

[Preethis]

Hi Team,

We already have zeebe retention policy , operate archive, task list archive policy set to 60d

We want to change to change from 60d to 14d since we have nearing to number of shards per node.

Can you please let me know if I need to change the value 14d alone enough or I need to use the curl Endpoint to update all zeebe indices?

[zee-bot]

The approach depends on your Camunda version - for 8.8+ just updating the configuration is sufficient, but for 8.7 and earlier you may need to manually update the policy using curl endpoints. I found the following relevant resources:

• Configure data retention - Configuration
• Configure data retention - Differences from previous versions
• Configure data retention - Manually creating or updating policies (8.7 and earlier)
• Configure data retention - Known limitations
• Configure data retention - Verifying retention policies

Does this help? If not, can anyone from the community jump in?

---

Hints: Use the Ask AI feature in Camunda’s documentation to chat with AI and get fast help. Report bugs and features in Camuda’s GitHub issue tracker. Trust the process.