This morning when working with one of my SQL Server servers, I went looking for an error log from last August. After finding that I was only able to go back six days, I checked the directory that stored SQL Server’s error logs, and noticed a gap in the logs from October to last March.
When I checked the configuration for the error logs in SQL Server Management Studio, I saw that the setting was configured at the default setting of 6 error logs for history.
Read on to understand why this happened.