# Get observability settings

> How long a project's requests, logs and spans are kept (retention_days; charts are kept longer, as per-minute counts) and whether its apps on g1t.page send telemetry (deployments).

<div class="g1t-endpoint"><span class="g1t-method" data-method="get">GET</span><code>/workspaces/{workspace}/projects/{project}/observability/settings</code></div>

Needs the Admin role.

Requests, logs and spans are kept for `retention_days`; the overview's charts are kept longer, as per-minute counts. Needs the Admin role.

- **Authentication:** Required. Send an [access token](/reference/api/#authentication) as `Authorization: Bearer`.
- **MCP tool:** None. Signing in is on the REST API only.

## Path parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `workspace` | string | Yes | The workspace's slug, e.g. "flagon-io". |
| `project` | string | Yes | The project's slug, as in g1t.sh/{workspace}/{project}. |

## Example request

```sh
curl https://api.g1t.sh/workspaces/flagon-io/projects/g1t/observability/settings \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $G1T_TOKEN"
```

## Example response

A successful request answers `200` with:

```json
{
  "retention_days": 7,
  "deployments": true
}
```

## Errors

A failed request answers with one of these statuses and a body like `{"error": {"code": "not_found", "message": "Repository not found."}}`. See [errors](/reference/api/#errors).

| Status | Code | When |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 401 | `unauthenticated` | A token is required, or the one sent is not valid. |
| 403 | `forbidden` | The token is valid but not allowed to do this, such as a member-only change, or a token without the scope it needs. |
| 404 | `not_found` | It does not exist, or you cannot see it. |
| 422 | `invalid` | The input is not valid. `message` says which field and why. |