Data ingestion and daily license usage

Splunk Cloud Platform administers your data based on your subscription type. For more information, see Data policies in the "Subscription types" section of the Splunk Cloud Platform Service Description.

Data backup policy

Splunk Cloud continuously maintains and monitors your deployment. For more information, see the "Ensures Splunk Cloud Platform uptime and security" section of Splunk maintenance responsibilities in the Splunk Cloud Platform Service Description.

Data retention

When you send data to Splunk Cloud Platform, it is stored in indexes. Splunk Cloud Platform retains data based on index settings that enable you to specify when data is to be deleted or moved to self storage. To configure different data retention settings for different sources of data, store the data in separate indexes according to the desired retention policy.

You can configure the number of days for data to be searchable by configuring the Searchable time (days) setting for an individual index. For more information, see Manage data retention settings.

Index data is stored in directories called buckets. Data is deleted by deleting entire buckets, not individual events. When the maximum age or size of the Index is reached, buckets are deleted or moved starting with the oldest buckets first. Buckets are removed until the index no longer exceeds the configured limit. If you use data self storage or archiving, buckets are not deleted until the data is successfully moved to your self storage or archive location.

Data retention is based on your subscription type. For more details about data retention policies, see the Storage section of the Splunk Cloud Platform Service Description.