# Clean up old data

**URL:** <https://community.sonarsource.com/t/clean-up-old-data/89441>\
**Category:** SonarQube Server / Community Build\
**Tags:** database\
**Created:** [April 18, 2023, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/clean-up-old-data/89441 "2023-04-18T18:35:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![joao\_paulo\_moreira](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/sonarsource/user_avatar/community.sonarsource.com/joao_paulo_moreira/32/44266_2.png) [@joao\_paulo\_moreira](https://community.sonarsource.com/u/joao_paulo_moreira)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/clean-up-old-data/89441/1 "2023-04-18T18:35:42Z")

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Hello everybody,

I’m new to using SonarQube and I’d like to know if there really is a routine to clean up old data in the tool. Example data older than 6 months stored in my database.

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**Author:** ![ganncamp](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/sonarsource/user_avatar/community.sonarsource.com/ganncamp/32/1261_2.png) [@ganncamp](https://community.sonarsource.com/u/ganncamp)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 2:27pm UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/clean-up-old-data/89441/2 "2023-04-20T14:27:31Z")

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Hi,

Welcome to the community!

The [docs on housekeeping](https://docs.sonarqube.org/latest/instance-administration/housekeeping/) should help.

If you’re wondering about branches and PRs, [they get cleaned up too](https://docs.sonarqube.org/latest/analyzing-source-code/branches/branch-analysis/#inactive-branches).

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HTH,  
Ann

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**Author:** ![joao\_paulo\_moreira](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/sonarsource/user_avatar/community.sonarsource.com/joao_paulo_moreira/32/44266_2.png) [@joao\_paulo\_moreira](https://community.sonarsource.com/u/joao_paulo_moreira)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 9:46pm UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/clean-up-old-data/89441/3 "2023-05-05T21:46:41Z")

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Hi G Ann,

thank you for your helping. I was using POST api/projects/bulk\_delete API to delete my old projects without analyses before old data.