Update change-metrics-storage.md (#14905)
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The Netdata Agent uses a custom made time-series database (TSDB), named the
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[`dbengine`](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/database/engine/README.md), to store metrics.
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+To see the number of metrics stored and the retention in days per tier, use the `/api/v1/dbengine_stats` endpoint.
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To increase or decrease the metric retention time, you just [configure](#configure-metric-retention)
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the number of storage tiers and the space allocated to each one. The effect of these two parameters
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on the maximum retention and the memory used by Netdata is described in detail, below.
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through time (because it has to break pages prematurely, increasing the metadata overhead). But the actual
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numbers should not deviate significantly from the above.
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+To see the number of metrics stored and the retention in days per tier, use the `/api/v1/dbengine_stats` endpoint.
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### Effect of storage tiers and retention on memory usage
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