Deleting data from your account


Proceed with caution

The data that you delete is permanently purged from your account, and cannot be recovered or tracked.

Delete data from your account when you want to permanently purge data from a specific source or application for your account. This feature is useful in scenarios such as erroneous data tagging that caused data to be sent to an incorrect app. It might also be useful to delete data if you want to start collecting data afresh after using test applications and data.

Choose your option(s) after carefully considering the impact on your existing analytics tasks and operations. For example, deleting metric data will impact all views where you use those metrics and deleting source data will impact the associated app.

Related topics

Managing-sources

Managing-applications

Viewing-metric-details

Managing-events

Before you begin

Ensure that you have configured data collection for your TrueSight Intelligence account.

Admin access required

You must have Admin privileges to access this functionality. Alternately, request your account admin to perform this task.

Note

In all the scenarios listed below, sources and apps will be re-created if new data is received.


To delete events

  1. Click settings > Delete Events
  2. Select the data by filtering the events
    1. Specify the Time range for which you want to analyze events.
    2. Select the Apps to which the events are associated.
    3. Select the Event Type that you want to analyze.
      The Number of Events to Delete (displayed on the right) indicates the number of events found based on the date range and is updated based on the selected filters.
  3. Click Continue to review the events that you are selecting for deletion.

  4. Click Continue to proceed with deletion.
    Alternately, click Start Over if you want to start over with the configuration.

    Note

    When you select a large number of events for deletion, the process might take up to a few minutes.

  5. Click Delete n Events, where n is the number of events that will be deleted.
    Alternately, click Start Over if you want to start over with the configuration.

To delete measurements for a specific metric

  1. Search a metric using one of the following methods:
    • Search for the metric from the search box.
    • Click Sources and select a source followed by the metric.
    • Click Apps and select the metric. If you are viewing details for an App, select the metric from the KPIs tab.
  2. Click more and select Delete Measurement Data.

To delete measurements for all metrics belonging to a source

  1. Click Sources to view a list of all the data sources configured to send data to TrueSight Intelligence.
    The source name and type are displayed.
  2. Click the source name to view the list of metrics collected by the source.
  3. From the top-right of the screen click more and select Delete all Measurement data.

To delete all* data for a source

*All data includes measurements, baselines, and events.

  1. Click Sources to view a list of all the data sources configured to send data to TrueSight Intelligence.
    The source name and type are displayed.
  2. Click the source name to view the list of metrics collected by the source.
  3. Click Show Details to view details for the selected source.
  4. Click Delete > Data only.

To delete the source definition and all* data for a source

*All data includes measurements, baselines, and events.

  1. Click Sources to view a list of all the data sources configured to send data to TrueSight Intelligence.
    The source name and type are displayed.
  2. Click the source name to view the list of metrics collected by the source.
  3. Click Show Details to view details for the selected source.
  4. Click Delete > Source and Data.

To delete the app definition, associated source definitions, and all* data for all sources

*All data includes measurements, baselines, and events.

  1. Click Apps and click the application name to view the application details.
  2. Click Show Details to view details for the selected app.
  3. Click Delete.

 

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