---
title: Manage data storage
description: Universal Profiling provides the following ways to manage how your data is stored. Index lifecycle management automatically manages your indices according...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/solutions/observability/infra-and-hosts/manage-data-storage
products:
  - Elastic Observability
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Unavailable
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
---

# Manage data storage
Universal Profiling provides the following ways to manage how your data is stored.
- [Index lifecycle management](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/solutions/observability/infra-and-hosts/universal-profiling-index-life-cycle-management) automatically manages your indices according to age or size metric thresholds. Universal Profiling ships with a default index lifecycle policy, but you can create a custom policy to meet your requirements.
- [Probabilistic profiling](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/solutions/observability/infra-and-hosts/configure-probabilistic-profiling) mode uses representative samples of profiling data to reduce storage needs even further.

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  Additional storage efficiencies provided by [Synthetic `_source`](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/elasticsearch/mapping-reference/mapping-source-field) are available to users with an [appropriate license](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions).
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