Planning to disable internal storage

Review considerations for disabling local storage and offloading all data in your IBM® API Connect Analytics deployment.

The Analytics subsystem provides a complete solution for routing, storing, and viewing the analytics data. However, you might not need the internal storage and viewing solution, especially if you are primarily using a third-party system for data offloading. In this scenario, you can greatly reduce your CPU and memory costs by disabling the internal storage and viewing components.

With this approach, data that is offloaded is not viewable in the API Manager and Developer Portal UIs.

When you disable internal storage for analytics data, the following microservices are disabled:

osinit
storage

Important: The disablement of internal storage must be set in the analytics CR yaml file before installation. It is not possible to disable or re-enable internal storage after installation.

For the steps to disable internal storage, see Kubernetes - Disabling internal storage, OpenShift - Disabling internal storage.