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# 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](https://docs.datadoghq.com/extend/guide/data-collection-resolution). Still need help? Contact [Datadog support](https://docs.datadoghq.com/help).

| Product                                   | Data 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**: Retained for the duration of the account |
| App and API Protection                    | - **Security signals**: 15 months
  - **Spans**: 90 days                                                                                                                                               |
| Audit Trail                               | - **Audit logs (Audit Trail enabled)**: 90 days
  - **Audit logs (Audit Trail disabled)**: 7 days                                                                                                      |
| Bits AI Dev Agent                         | - **Source Code**: 7 days                                                                                                                                                                              |
| Browser RUM                               | - **Session, View, Action, and Error Events**: 30 days
  - **Resource, Long Task, and Vitals Events**: 15 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                            | - **Findings and resolved vulnerabilities**: 15 months                                                                                                                                                 |
| Cloud SIEM                                | - **Signals**: 15 months
  - **Detections, notifications, suppressions**: Retained for the duration of the account                                                                                     |
| Workload Protection                       | - **Events**: 90 days
  - **Security signals**: 15 months                                                                                                                                              |
| Code Security SAST                        | - **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                       | - **Individual profiles (not opened in the UI)**: 8 days
  - **Individual profiles (opened in the UI at least once)**: 1 year
  - **Profile metrics**: 90 days                                         |
| Continuous Testing                        | - **Batch results**: 2 months
  - **Test results**: 2 months                                                                                                                                           |
| CoScreen                                  | - **Sessions**: 15 months                                                                                                                                                                              |
| Data Observability: Jobs Monitoring       | - **Job traces**: 90 days                                                                                                                                                                              |
| Database Monitoring                       | - **Query samples**: 15 days
  - **Query metrics**: 15 months                                                                                                                                          |
| Datadog App                               | - **Dashboards, Notebooks, Monitors**: Retained for the duration of the account                                                                                                                        |
| DORA Metrics                              | - **Deployments**: 2 years                                                                                                                                                                             |
| Error Tracking                            | - **Error samples**: 30 days
  - **Issues**: 1 year after last activity                                                                                                                                |
| Event Management                          | - **Events**: 15 months                                                                                                                                                                                |
| Incident Management                       | - **Incidents**: Retained for the duration of the account                                                                                                                                              |
| LLM Observability                         | - **Production Traces and spans**: 15 days
  - **Experiments Traces and spans**: 90 days
  - **Datasets**: 3 years                                                                                     |
| 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                                | - **Session, View, Action, and Error Events**: 30 days
  - **Resource, Long Task, and Vitals Events**: 15 Days                                                                                         |
| Network Device Monitoring                 | - **NetFlow**: 15, 30, 60, or 90 days, determined by customer plan
  - **SNMP traps**: Determined by customer plan, default to 15 days                                                                 |
| Cloud Network Monitoring                  | - **Network traffic**: 14 days                                                                                                                                                                         |
| Network Path                              | - **Network Path Tests**: 30 days                                                                                                                                                                      |
| Product Analytics                         | - **Events**: 15 months
  - **User Profiles**: 30 days                                                                                                                                                 |
| PR 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                  | - **SLO 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                                                                                                                                                              |
| Source Code Integration                   | - **Source Code**: 7 days                                                                                                                                                                              |
| 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{% #further-reading %}

- [Review the main categories of data submitted to Datadog](https://docs.datadoghq.com/data_security/)