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Data Refresh Timings in Beacon

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Written by Rakshitha Asileti
Updated over a week ago
  • Hourly View: Refreshes every hour and retains data for up to two hours. This retention window is expected to reduce to one hour soon.

  • Daily/Monthly View: The Snowplow pipeline starts at 4:00 AM EST and typically completes by around 5:30 AM EST. Once the pipeline completes, Beacon ingests the available data, which includes:

    • Complete data for Day-1, and

    • Partial data for the current day (up to ~3:30 AM EST).

Beacon starts refreshing data after the Snowplow gold pipeline completes, and the latest data is usually available between 8:00 AM and 9:00 AM EST.

  • Beacon includes all articles that received traffic within the past 24 months.

If you have any further questions or queries about Beacon please feel free to go through the Beacon help section .

For further assistance please write to Beacon team at - beacon-help@condenast.com.

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