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History storage period continues to be misleading for developers/buyers

Open mattheworiordan opened this issue 1 month ago • 0 comments

If you ask Inkeep about history, by default it implies Pub/Sub message storage is 24-72 hours, with no explicit mention of longer storage.

Chat however is correct, which makes it clear this is a documentation issue:

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I have been using an agent to plan out a feature for a chat app demo I wam working no, and it too came to the wrong conclusion:

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We need to be far more explicit in Pub/Sub docs to address this shortfall. This directly impacts our goals of ensuring developers succeed when evaluating Ably.

In addition, we need to ensure our dashboards offer a way to request longer message storage durations.

mattheworiordan avatar Nov 23 '25 11:11 mattheworiordan