According to the official IBM Instana Observability documentation (v1.0.304), retention policy settings in Custom Edition are NOT configured in a custom resource called 'StorageConf.' Instead, they are configured as properties within the CoreSpec of the Core custom resource. The documentation explicitly states: 'Overwriting the default retention settings is optional and should only be done consciously. These retention setting values are configured as properties in the CoreSpec.' The actual configuration looks like this:

text

kind: Core

metadata:

name: instana-core

namespace: instana-core

spec:

properties:

- name: retention.metrics.rollup5

value: '86400'

- name: config.appdata.shortterm.retention.days

value: '7'

- name: config.synthetics.retention.days

value: '60'

The retention policies for infrastructure metrics, application data, and synthetic monitoring are all configured as properties within the Core spec, not in a separate 'StorageConf' custom resource. 'StorageConf' refers to storage configurations for raw spans (S3, GCS, Azure), not retention policies.