Suggestion: allow more than 3 days of history

I suspect there may be a very good reason to cap the history retention at a max of 3 days.

But…

Especially with the addition of the MCP in AppControl, I am thinking I might want AI answers to longer-term events. This could be looking at trends: “why is my computer slower this week than it was 2 months ago?”, or “why, since last ‘patch Tuesday’, RAM usage seems to be peaking higher in late afternoons on weekdays but not so bad on the weekend?”

Thanks!

@CTaylor Thanks for your feedback. It is on our road map to add more than 3 days of history to AppControl, and yes, it’s especially useful for the MCP for sure! I want this for myself also!

The main thing is that we don’t want our resource usage monitor to use too many resources.

A hard balancing act, for sure: keep AppControl light and not impacting performance of the computer too much, while giving ever-increasing features that inevitably take some resources to provide!

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I will say though… if you use Claude desktop or something similar on your PC, it uses so much resources that resource usage from anything else looks like nothing. :laughing:

On top of this, AppControl has settings to decrease resource usage in AppControl itself. By default we are in “performance mode” to show the smoothest graphs, but we also have the “efficient” mode.