# Retire historical data

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/retire-historical-data/8491>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [May 23, 2014, 6:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/retire-historical-data/8491 "2014-05-23T18:15:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![AJBerera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@AJBerera](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/AJBerera)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 6:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/retire-historical-data/8491/1 "2014-05-23T18:15:04Z")

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In tag history setup, perhaps we could have an option for whether to remove the tag after a certain time period or have a short term historian. For example, I only need the past 10 hours of data and don’t want to waste space in the database with old data…  
Answered here:  
[viewtopic.php?f=70&t=12459](https://www.inductiveautomation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=12459)