Changing Retention Settings

Minimum Retention: 7 Days#

The server rejects any retention period below 7 days. The UI enforces min={7} on the input fields as well. This prevents accidental configuration that would purge very recent data.

Updating Retention Periods#

1. Adjust the day values in the numeric fields for each entity type. Values must be 7 or greater.
2. Click Save Policy.
3. A success banner confirms “Retention policy updated”.

Manual Purge Trigger#

Click Run Now to trigger an immediate purge with the currently saved settings. This calls runRetentionNow and returns a total count of purged records in the success banner. Useful after a bulk import or data migration to clean up old records immediately.

Retention Recommendations#

• Keep evidence-event at 365 days to preserve a full year of audit trail history.
• The access-cache default of 7 days is appropriate, it is a performance cache, not primary data, and does not need long retention.