Disable history in etcd key value store

Question

Is there any way to disable the history saving in etcd?

I am going to use etcd as KV for my app and I don't need history for the key values.

When I search etcd, I couldn't find about disabling the history.

I don't want to use the compacting feature in etcd.

Answer 1

Event history is part of etcd.

It was acknowledged, as far back as 2015 in issue 4432 ("Consider moving events out of etcd") that:

Events account for the overwhelming majority of our etcd write volume, which is causing a variety of performance and stability problems.
We could consider a different delivery mechanism for the events.

But for now, this is still managed by etcd.

There are other Key-Value referential which might prove simpler to manage than etcd in your case. I use prologic/bitcask.