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title: Archive Insights data in S3-compatible object storage
date: "2026-06-08"
publisher: Honeybadger
url: "https://www.honeybadger.io/changelog/insights-data-archive/"
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_As of June 2026, this feature is in beta._

If you need to keep your Insights data longer than Honeybadger stores it, Business and Enterprise accounts can now replicate data to third-party archive destinations such as Amazon S3 or Cloudflare R2.

Setup is simple:

1. Create an S3-compatible bucket with any of our [supported services.](https://docs.honeybadger.io/guides/insights/archive-destinations/#supported-providers)
2. Export credentials with write-only access to that bucket.
3. Create a new archive destination in **Account Settings** pointing to that bucket.
4. Attach an Insights stream to the archive destination.

Events from Insights will now flow to the archive destination.

![Active archive destination](https://www-files.honeybadger.io/changelog/insights-data-archive/archive-overview.png)

Here are a few additional details:

- We automatically retry uploads after transient failures or downtime. If a destination keeps failing or encounters an unrecoverable error, it's marked **errored** and we’ll email you to let you know.
- To keep S3 costs down, we store periodically batched events in a compressed file, which saves space and S3 PUT request counts.
- Only the events that flow through your Insights streams are replicated. Detailed error data such as backtraces, breadcrumbs, and environment variables is not included.

See the guide on the [archive destinations documentation page](https://docs.honeybadger.io/guides/insights/archive-destinations/) to learn more.

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