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The only thing I can think of is that they are collecting every single line of log data from every single production server with absolutely zero expiration so that they can backtrack any future attack with precision, maybe even finding the original breach.

That's the only actual use case I can think of for something like this, which makes sense for a cryptocurrency exchange that is certainly expecting to get hacked at some point.



Security and customer support are the two main reasons why people want a super long retention.

Medium retention (1 or 2 months) is still very appreciable if some issue in your bugtracker stay stale for this amount of time.




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