Data Retention Periods

The following table lists default data retention periods by data type and product. Optionally, search by keyword or description text to find the data type or product you’re interested in. For collection interval and minimum resolution information, see Datadog Data Collection and Resolution. Still need help? Contact Datadog support.

ProductData Type and Default Retention Period
APM
  • Errors: 15 days
  • Indexed spans: 15 or 30 days, determined by customer plan
  • Services/resources statistics: 30 days
  • Viewed traces: 15 months
Application Security Management
  • Security signals: 15 months
  • Spans: 90 days
Audit Trail
  • Audit logs: 90 days
Browser RUM
  • Events: 30 days
Case Management
  • Cases: Retained for the duration of the account
CD Visibility
  • Deployments: 30 days
CI Pipeline Visibility
  • Pipelines, stages, jobs, setups, commands: 15 months
Cloud Cost Management
  • Recommendations: 90 days
Cloud Security Management
  • Findings and resolved vulnerabilities: 15 months
Cloud SIEM
  • Signals: 15 months
  • Detections, notifications, suppressions: Retained for the duration of the account
Cloud Workload Security
  • Events: 90 days
  • Security signals: 15 months
Code Analysis
  • Scans: 15 months
Code Security IAST
  • Detected vulnerabilities: 15 months
Container and Process Monitoring
  • Container metadata: 2 hours
  • Live processes and containers: 36 hours
  • YAML definitions: 7 days
Continuous Profiler
  • Profiles (not displayed in the UI): 8 days
  • Profiles (displayed in the UI): 1 year
  • Profile metrics: 90 days
Continuous Testing
  • Batch results: 2 months
  • Test results: 2 months
CoScreen
  • Sessions: 15 months
Data Jobs Monitoring
  • Job traces: 90 days
Database Monitoring
  • Query samples: 15 days
Datadog App
  • Dashboards, Notebooks, Monitors: Retained for the duration of the account
Error Tracking
  • Errors: 1 year after last access
Event Management
  • Events: 15 months
Incident Management
  • Incidents: Retained for the duration of the account
LLM Observability
  • Traces and spans: 15 days
Log Management
  • Logs: Determined by customer plan
Metrics
  • Tags and values: 15 months
Mobile App Testing
  • Test results (not displayed in UI): 2 months
  • Test results (displayed in UI): 15 months
  • Mobile application binaries: Retained for the duration of the account
Mobile RUM
  • Events: 30 days
Network Device Monitoring
  • Netflow: 30 days
  • SNMP traps: 15 days
Network Performance Monitoring
  • Netflow: 14 days
Product Analytics
  • Events: 15 months
  • User Profiles: 30 days
Quality Gates
  • Gate evaluations: 30 days
Reference Tables
  • Tables: Retained for the duration of the account
Service Catalog
  • Service metadata: Retained for the duration of the account
Service Level Objectives
  • Monitor-based results: 3 months
  • Metric and time slice-based results: 15 months
Session Replay
  • Replays (extension option in UI is unchecked): 30 days
  • Replays (extension option in UI is checked): 15 months
Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
  • Detected vulnerabilities: 15 months
Synthetics
  • Test results (not displayed in UI): 2 months
  • Test results (displayed in UI): 15 months
Test Visibility & Intelligent Test Runner
  • Tests: 3 months
Workflow Automation
  • Workflows: 30 days

Further Reading

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