Tracking errors in a computing system

An apparatus for tracking errors in a computing system that includes a plurality of current error buckets and a plurality of historical error buckets, the apparatus comprising a hardware computer processor, a hardware computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the apparatus to carry out the steps of:

• inserting, by an error repository manager into a current error bucket, error information describing a first error identified by a timestamp, wherein the current error bucket is associated with a bucket interval determined using a base time interval associated with the error measured from the timestamp;
• moving, by the error repository manager, the error information in the current error bucket to a historical error bucket upon the expiration of the bucket interval, wherein each historical error bucket has a storage interval determined in dependence upon the base time interval associated with the error and a bucket number associated with the historical error bucket;
• and
• moving, by the error repository manager, the error information in a source historical error bucket to a destination historical error bucket upon the expiration of the storage interval associated with the source historical error bucket.