Data retention in Splunk Observability Cloud

Data retention for Splunk Observability Cloud.

The following sections list the data retention for each product in Splunk Observability Cloud.

Note: To learn more about archived metrics, see Archived metrics.

Data retention in Infrastructure Monitoring

The following table shows the retention time period for each data type in Infrastructure Monitoring.


Data resolution	Retention
1 second resolution	Standard license edition: 8 days Enterprise license edition: 3 months
10 seconds or more	13 months

The following table shows the retention time period for each data type in RUM.


Data type	Retention
Spans	8 days
Troubleshooting MetricSets	8 days
Monitoring MetricSets	13 months
Session Replay	8 days

The following table shows the retention time period for each data type in APM.


Data type	Retention
Traces	All raw traces: 8 days Traces of interest viewed in the Splunk APM user interface: up to 13 months. See Configure extended trace retention to learn how to extend the retention of specific traces of interest.
Troubleshooting MetricSets	8 days
Monitoring MetricSets	13 months
Profiling data	8 days

Data collected by Splunk On-Call is retained unless you request that your data be deleted. For more information, see Splunk On-Call Security FAQ.

The following table shows the retention time period for each data type in Splunk Synthetic Monitoring.


Data type	Retention
Run results	Standard license edition: 8 days Enterprise license edition: 3 months
Metric data	13 months for both Standard and Enterprise.