Event Archiving

Event archiving means retiring an event from the active reporting view without deleting its historical data; the event leaves the current list but its history remains.

Archiving is the answer to accumulation: over time the event list fills with events no longer produced or that have lost their importance, and that clutter makes finding the important event hard. Archiving takes these out of sight without burning their history, so it differs fundamentally from deletion: deletion is irreversible, archiving is merely a reversible hiding. The common trap is archiving too early an event still used somewhere in live reports; so archiving should follow a dependency check, not a glance at the list. Archiving is usually the middle step of an event's lifecycle: from active to archived, and only if necessary and cautiously to deletion.