When you enable an event SDK in the POM system, POM stores the events at the following location:

$POM_HOME/kafka_server/kafka-store

By default, POM keeps event-specific data of the last seven days in the kafka-store file and generates approximately 50 GB of data per one million attempts. Therefore, you must provision disk space on the POM server.

To reduce the disk requirement, you can reduce the retention period and the purge interval of the Kafka server.

The default retention period is three days (72 hours). To modify the retention period, you can set the properties in the following files: