Deploy log missing chunks of history

[alvarl]

I want to download my historical deployments for the site grunfin-landing.

I use Netlify CLI to access the listSiteDeploys call like this:

netlify api listSiteDeploys -d "{\"site_id\": \"982ab1dc-e512-426a-9e3d-49ecb4038f71\", \"per_page\": 100, \"production\": \"true\", \"page\": 1 }" > web_deploys_1.json

It’s not an API problem alone, I see no deploys either on the site:

[nathanmartin]

@alvarl It may be related to this:

Automated deploy cleanup and new deploy retention policies starting late October 2022

Starting no sooner than October 25, 2022, Netlify will begin automatically batch-deleting non-critical deploys older than 90 days. Alongside this release, Netlify is also introducing new, configurable deploy deletion policies for customers on Business and Enterprise plans who may want to keep deploys for longer or delete them more frequently. [A policy to delete deploys after 1-365 days] Automatic deploy deletion will not impact your production site or your underlying source code hosted by yo…

Automatic deploy deletion and deploy retention policies | Netlify Blog

[alvarl]

Thanks @nathanmartin , I think this is exactly it and explains the slightly chaotic nature of missing deploys I seemed to be witnessing.