Loki Syslog Retention on Debian

Grafana Loki
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I’m using Loki for syslog on a Debian 12 server and want to configure a retention period of 3 months for all syslog data. I believe I need to add compactor config to the config/yaml file similar to below

compactor:
  working_directory: /data/retention
  compaction_interval: 10m
  retention_enabled: true
  retention_delete_delay: 2h
  retention_delete_worker_count: 90
  delete_request_store: gcs

My questions are where do I ge the “working_directory” and “delete_request_store” details from on my install?

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Working directory is a local directory where compactor stores temporary data, usually not critical, you just need to make sure it doesn’t conflict with other things if you are running simple scalable mode where a container can have multiple components.

delete_request_store can be local filesystem as well, but if you are using object storage such as gcs bucket or S3 you can just use the same object storage.

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Thanks for reply

So my deployment is installled locally on a Debian virtual machine. No containers or AWS etc so doesn’t that mean my object storage would be a local folder ?