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Data Retention

Keel Data Retention — how long governance data is kept

Location in Keel: /settings/retention

Data Retention controls how long the appliance keeps its governance data — incidents, audit logs, detection history, and assistant chats. Each window is set in days, and 0 means keep forever.

Governance data

Set a retention window for each type of governance record, then Save:

Setting What it controls
Incidents How long resolved / old incidents are kept.
Audit logs The tamper-evident action log. Keep long for compliance; 0 = forever.
Detection history How long detection / alert firing history is kept.
Chat history How long assistant conversations are kept.

Keep audit logs for compliance

The audit log is tamper-evident. For regulated environments, set a long window — or 0 to keep it forever.

Log storage

Log retention is not set here — this page shows it read-only (for example, 30 days). Log windows, including per-class hot→cold and delete-after ages, are managed on the Storage page.

Note

Governance data and log storage retain independently. Change how long raw logs are kept under Storage; change how long incidents, audit logs, detection history, and chats are kept here.