Archiving Data
Pre-requisites:
To archive data in the API Gateway database, you must have the Manage purge and restore runtime event functional privilege in API Gateway.
Archiving is the process of moving data that is no longer actively used for long-term retention so that it can be used at a later time. You can archive data based on the type of data or the age of the data in the API Gateway database.
To archive data
1. Expand the menu options icon 
, in the title bar, and select Administration. 2. Select Manage Data.
3. Click Archive & purge.
4. Select the event types for which the data has to be archived.
The available options are:
ALLAudit logs Error events Lifecycle events Monitor events Performance metrics Policy violation events Threat protection events Transaction events Application logs 5. Select Archive.
6. Select one of the following options to archive the required data.
Select
Until. Select a date by which you want the data to be archived.
API Gateway archives the selected types of data that are older than the specified date.
Select
Duration. Type the maximum time after which you want the data to be archived.
API Gateway archives the selected types of data after the time specified in years, months, days, hours, minutes, or seconds (1y, 1m, 1d, 1H, 1M, 1S).
7. Click Submit.
The required data on the API Gateway database is archived.
Log data is archived in the location that is configured for the backupsharedFilelocation property in the Extended settings section. The default location is the java system temp directory. In a cluster environment, this is a shared location.
The archival limit is set as per the property backuplimit configured in the Extended settings section.