A method for archiving monitoring data by enabling real-time analysis within a live database. A processor receives a set of parameters, which is selected based on monitoring data of a system application. The processor determines a historical schema of monitoring data and a retention period for a current schema of monitoring data, based on the set of parameters. The processor performs an impact analysis of the historical schema and retention period of the monitoring data. Upon acceptance of the impact analysis, the processor generates the historical schema which is applied to a table of monitoring data, populated by copying monitoring data from the current schema to the historical schema, within the live database. The processor removes monitoring data exceeding the rolling retention period from both the current schema and historical schema, based on the rolling retention period of the current schema.