Merge pull request #2394 from splunk/trangl-o11ydocs-6505-add-events-retention

Add events retention

Author: trangl-splunk

infrastructure/retention.rst

@@ -102,4 +102,4 @@ The following table shows how long data is retained at different resolutions.
 
 For more information on rollups in general, and how they apply to charts and detectors, see :ref:`rollups`.
 
-.. note:: Custom events are retained in the platform for a year.
+.. note:: All events are retained in the platform for 12 months.

metrics-and-metadata/view-data-events.rst

@@ -125,4 +125,12 @@ When you hover over an event in the Event Feed sidebar, a vertical line is shown
 
 When you select an event in the Event Feed sidebar, you can see details about the event and, for events associated with alerts, an option to open the detector that generated the event. If the event is associated with a currently active alert, you'll also see an option to resolve the alert.
 
-.. note:: You can also :ref:`overlay event markers <dashboard-event-overlay>` onto charts on a dashboard.
+.. note:: You can also :ref:`overlay event markers <dashboard-event-overlay>` onto charts on a dashboard.
+
+
+.. _events-retention:
+
+Events retention in Splunk Observability Cloud
+=============================================================================
+
+All types of events have a retention period of 12 months.