Where does Durable Entity store its state and do I need to take care of its storage lifetime

[AlexEngblom]

Hi,

I'm curious are we able to check on the Durable Entity state through other means than the Durable Client API?

The reason I'm asking is that some questions were raised whether we should manage entity expiration or not.
Meaning, there apparently is no link between Durable Orchestration expiration and Durable Entity expiration as they are completely independent instances although in our business logic they are heavily coupled and even share the same instance key.

This documentation led me to believe that the Storage dedicated for Function Host would contain some information about my Orchestrations and Entities instances. Specifically the Instances table. When I check the contents through Storage Explorer, I can only see my Orchestration instances and their input. There is nothing about Entities here.

I can also see some events sent for the entities in the History table, but that still doesn't tell us much.

Do we need to kill the Durable Entity instances / states separately?
Can we somehow see the existing Durable Entity instances / sates?

I would appreciate any insight on tracking the Durable Entity instances, lifetime, expiration and states.

Thanks,
Alex