Understanding the core components: airbyte-cron

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Important

The airbyte-cron is a small component responsible to clean the logs.

Here is a list of what logs the service is responsible to clean:

• Workspace logs, the workspace files are only relevant in Docker deployments.
• Temporal workflow logs
• (Cloud only) It retrieves the connectors catalog definition 30s

The logs are stored inside /tmp/workspace folder using the env variable TEMPORAL_HISTORY_RETENTION_IN_DAYS the default value is 30

It also cleans any closed or ended temporal workflows each 10s.