How long are build meta-data and logs available?

[T. Klingenberg]

What is the retention policy for (Bitbucket Pipelines) builds for the meta-data and the logs?

Are there any quantifiable limits per account (and type) in time and space?

[Philip Hodder]

Hi Tom,

Artifacts:

• Expire 1 week after creation: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/using-artifacts-in-steps-935389074.html
• Each artifact can not be more than 1GB after compression.

Caches:

• Expire 1 week after creation: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/caching-dependencies-895552876.html
• Each cache can not be more than 1GB after compression.

Logs and other meta-data currently have no set expiration date. But this may change in the future.

Thanks,

Phil

[T. Klingenberg]

Thanks for taken the time to answer.

As we can foresee that nothing is built for eternity you will most likely be d'accord when I say that keeping logs and metadata is not without expiration.

So apart from concrete plans which if I understood you right do not exists to do this change, how is it possible to archive logs and metadata in bulk?

[Philip Hodder]

If we do ever make changes to our log/meta-data retention policy, we'll make sure to send out a bulk email to our users to give them a chance to retrieve the data for themselves. But again, we have no scheduled plans to do so in the foreseeable future.

If you're interested, we have a REST API available for accessing this type of data. For example the log download API. The other related APIs are listed there too.

[T. Klingenberg]

Hi Phil, thanks a lot for the infos, always a pleasure.

I'll take a look at the download API that looks a fine thing for sure.

Best Tom