Deletion Time Frame of Streams in OpenObserve

TLDR Karan deleted a stream in OpenObserve and asked if it frees disk space. It did, and Ashish explained that deletion from storage is a time-consuming background process.

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Karan
Fri, 13 Oct 2023 04:55:08 UTC

I deleted a stream in OpenObserve which was around 2-3GB. Does OpenObserve frees the disk space _eventually_? Because the disk space graphs seems to be at the same number.

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Karan
Fri, 13 Oct 2023 04:56:08 UTC

Ah yeah. Now it did :slightly_smiling_face:

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Ashish
Fri, 13 Oct 2023 05:05:22 UTC

removing from storage is a background process ..based on amt of data ..it takes time