data_retention_periods.md

title	Data Retention Periods
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type	data_retention_periods
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content	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](/extend/guide/data-collection-resolution). Still need help? Contact [Datadog support](/help).
attributes	product data_type 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 product data_type App and API Protection - **Security signals**: 15 months - **Spans**: 90 days product data_type Audit Trail - **Audit logs (Audit Trail enabled)**: 90 days - **Audit logs (Audit Trail disabled)**: 7 days product data_type Bits AI Dev Agent - **Source Code**: 7 days product data_type Browser RUM - **Session, View, Action, and Error Events**: 30 days - **Resource, Long Task, and Vitals Events**: 15 Days product data_type Case Management - **Cases**: Retained for the duration of the account product data_type CD Visibility - **Deployments**: 30 days product data_type CI Pipeline Visibility - **Pipelines, stages, jobs, setups, commands**: 15 months product data_type Cloud Cost Management - **Recommendations**: 90 days product data_type Cloud Security - **Findings and resolved vulnerabilities**: 15 months product data_type Cloud SIEM - **Signals**: 15 months - **Detections, notifications, suppressions**: Retained for the duration of the account product data_type Workload Protection - **Events**: 90 days - **Security signals**: 15 months product data_type Code Security SAST - **Scans**: 15 months product data_type Code Security IAST - **Detected vulnerabilities**: 15 months product data_type Container and Process Monitoring - **Container metadata**: 2 hours - **Live processes and containers**: 36 hours - **YAML definitions**: 7 days product data_type 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 product data_type Continuous Testing - **Batch results**: 2 months - **Test results**: 2 months product data_type CoScreen - **Sessions**: 15 months product data_type Data Observability: Jobs Monitoring - **Job traces**: 90 days product data_type Database Monitoring - **Query samples**: 15 days - **Query metrics**: 15 months product data_type Datadog App - **Dashboards, Notebooks, Monitors**: Retained for the duration of the account product data_type DORA Metrics - **Deployments**: 2 years product data_type Error Tracking - **Error samples**: 30 days - **Issues**: 1 year after last activity product data_type Event Management - **Events**: 15 months product data_type Incident Management - **Incidents**: Retained for the duration of the account product data_type LLM Observability - **Production Traces and spans**: 15 days - **Experiments Traces and spans**: 90 days - **Datasets**: 3 years product data_type Log Management - **Logs**: Determined by customer plan product data_type Metrics - **Tags and values**: 15 months product data_type 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 product data_type Mobile RUM - **Session, View, Action, and Error Events**: 30 days - **Resource, Long Task, and Vitals Events**: 15 Days product data_type Network Device Monitoring - **NetFlow**: 15, 30, 60, or 90 days, determined by customer plan - **SNMP traps**: Determined by customer plan, default to 15 days product data_type Cloud Network Monitoring - **Network traffic**: 14 days product data_type Network Path - **Network Path Tests**: 30 days product data_type Product Analytics - **Events**: 15 months - **User Profiles**: 15 months, or 30 days if <a href="/product_analytics/guide/rum_and_product_analytics/#how-do-i-set-up-product-analytics">Product Analytics is not enabled</a> product data_type PR Gates - **Gate evaluations**: 30 days product data_type Reference Tables - **Tables**: Retained for the duration of the account product data_type Service Catalog - **Service metadata**: Retained for the duration of the account product data_type Service Level Objectives - **SLO results**: 15 months product data_type Session Replay - **Replays (extension option in UI is unchecked)**: 30 days - **Replays (extension option in UI is checked)**: 15 months product data_type Software Composition Analysis (SCA) - **Detected vulnerabilities**: 15 months product data_type Source Code Integration - **Source Code**: 7 days product data_type Synthetics - **Test results (not displayed in UI)**: 2 months - **Test results (displayed in UI)**: 15 months product data_type Test Visibility & Intelligent Test Runner - **Tests**: 3 months product data_type Workflow Automation - **Workflows**: 30 days

Further Reading

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