Loki retention does not seem to work

Grafana Loki
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1

I have set a retention period in my yml
table_manager:
retention_deletes_enabled: true
retention_period: 730h

But it does not seem to clean up my chunks on the system.
Am i missing something?

ls -ltr | head
total 15057436
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 256 Sep 12 2022 loki_cluster_seed.json
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 696 Sep 12 2022 ZmFrZS9kMWY3YTJjYTYzOGU1NGI1OjE4MzMwZWFmN2E3OjE4MzMwZWFmN2E5OjE0YTQwMjQ1
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 16771 Sep 12 2022 ZmFrZS82NjViMWRkOWI0ODc3MzNiOjE4MzMwZWFmNzkxOjE4MzMwZWFmOGFkOmQ0MjQ2NWE2
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 415 Sep 12 2022 ZmFrZS85ZTE1YTkwZTYwMzUyYzE5OjE4MzMwZWFmNzkwOjE4MzMwZWFmN2FhOjViZGE2ZjI1
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 14619 Sep 12 2022 ZmFrZS9lM2E0M2IwNWI0ZGViM2VmOjE4MzMwZWFmNzllOjE4MzMwZWFmN2U0OjkzMzE4Y2Ji
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 5433 Sep 12 2022 ZmFrZS85YmRjNWJkMmM5ZmFlNjg3OjE4MzMwZWFmNzk1OjE4MzMwZWFmNzlhOjU3Y2E2ZTg3

2

Try disabling table manager and use compactor instead. See Retention | Grafana Loki documentation.

3

Does this mean im using both??

compactor:
working_directory: /prometheusdata/loki/boltdb-shipper-compactor
shared_store: filesystem

limits_config:
unordered_writes: true

chunk_store_config:
max_look_back_period: 0s

table_manager:
retention_deletes_enabled: true
retention_period: 740h

4

Yeah, you’ll want to disable table manager.