Time to live set to 0 historic instances not being deleted

Camunda 7 Topics Discussion & Questions
1

Hello,

I have a process definition with time to live set to 0 however after process completion the historic instance and associated data isn’t being removed. I can see property removalTime being the same as endTime.

Is there any additional configuration I need to ensure that the historic data (instance and variables) are removed?

Thanks

2

Hi,

Could you please share your history cleanup configuration.
Do you trigger the history cleanup manually or it is scheduled?

3

Hi @Yana,
Turns out I had a configuration issue which wasn’t triggering the cleanup, updated to use the following:

public class HistoricCleanUpConfiguration  extends AbstractCamundaConfiguration {

    public void preInit(SpringProcessEngineConfiguration processEngineConfiguration) {
        log.info("Initialising batch window time for history cleanup");
        processEngineConfiguration.setHistoryCleanupBatchWindowStartTime("03:00");
        processEngineConfiguration.setHistoryCleanupBatchWindowEndTime("05:00");
        log.info("Initialised batch window time for history cleanup");

    }
}

Thanks