# .monitoring-es - increase retention?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-es-increase-retention/218344
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 7, 2020, 12:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-es-increase-retention/218344 "2020-02-07T12:19:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@TNO](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TNO)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2020, 12:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-es-increase-retention/218344/1 "2020-02-07T12:19:01Z")
Hi,
We're using Elastic Cloud and have a deployment with 3 zones.
When going to Kibana-\>Monitoring-\>Overview we only have 2 days worth of data.
I also only see indices for two days when GETing:
\_cat/indices
(.monitoring-es-6-xxx)
How can we configure the system to keep stats for at least 7 days?
Regards,
-Tommy
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### Author:  [@mattsdevop](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mattsdevop)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-es-increase-retention/218344/2 "2020-02-11T14:57:56Z")
The doc with the right setting you need is here:
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/monitoring-settings.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/monitoring-settings.html)
Call the following API operation to specify the index retention period. Change the 7d to whatever you like:
> PUT \_cluster/settings
> {"persistent": {"xpack.monitoring.history.duration":"7d"}}
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-es-increase-retention/218344/3 "2020-03-10T14:57:58Z")
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