From 834ca6a21e1a7eabbbcda0f8936b9772f48a562a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: elgarraichemseddine
 <131755258+elgarraichemseddine@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:44:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add 180-day/50GB retention requirement to Global Monitor
 (2.7.6.1)

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 guide/sections/part2/global-services.adoc | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/guide/sections/part2/global-services.adoc b/guide/sections/part2/global-services.adoc
index 4d68658..9a790b5 100644
--- a/guide/sections/part2/global-services.adoc
+++ b/guide/sections/part2/global-services.adoc
@@ -208,6 +208,8 @@ wis2-gdc is managed as a free and open source project. Source code, issue tracki
 * The Global Monitor will collect metrics as defined in the OpenMetrics standard.
 * The Global Monitor will monitor the "health" (that is, the performance) of components at NCs/DCPCs, as well as Global Services.
 * The Global Monitor will provide a web-based dashboard that displays the WIS2 system performance and data availability.
+* The Global Monitor will retain logs, metrics, and derived statistics for a minimum period of 180 days to support long-term monitoring, trend analysis, and KPI evaluation.
+* The Global Monitor will allocate a minimum of 50GB of storage for logs, metrics and derived statistics.
 * A Global Monitor will update its metrics at least every 60 seconds.
 * A Global Monitor should not reset its metrics counts.
 * As a convention, the Global Monitor centre-id will be ``{tld}-{centre-name}-global-monitor``.