Data Retention

This topic lists the Sysdig data retention policies. When a host or instance is no longer monitored, such as when the agent is uninstalled, the historical data continues to be retained for the times stated below.

Retention is limited by storage or time on an either/or basis.

Secure-only customers have two weeks of retention.

Sysdig Secure Retention Limits

ComponentRetention
Policy events1M events or 90 days
Activity audit90 days
Benchmarks90 days
Pipeline Results
(cli-scan )
90 days
AND
Maximum of 5 tags per repository and a maximum of 5 different images per tag.
Runtime viewWorkloads will never expire as long as they are running.
They will be removed from the Runtime view up to 15 minutes after termination.
Runtime reportingThe Report will include workloads running at the time of report creation and the workloads that were terminated 24 hours or less before report creation.
Vulnerability Management Reports14 days
Captures90 days
Registry Scanning Results90 days
Sysdig Platform Audit90 days
CSPM (Posture + Inventory)Resource data is refreshed every 24 hours when a posture evaluation is run.
Stale data (data from a failed scan because of a disconnected/removed agent, deleted cluster/account, or because the account lost its permissions) is shown for 7 days since the last scan.
Compliance data is stored in the backend for a year.

If required, you can change the standard data retention settings using Sysdig REST API. Contact your Sysdig support team or professional services for assitance as there are a variety of storage and timeline implications to consider before making such a change.

Sysdig Monitor Metric Retention Limits

Metric Granularity (Samples)Retention in AWS regionsRetention in GCP regions
10s7 days4 hours
1m14 days2 days
10m30 days14 days
1h3 months3 months
1d12 months12 months

Sysdig Monitor Events Retention Limits

ComponentsRetention
All Events
The total event limit includes all event types: Infrastructure, Alert, Sysdig, and Custom events.
2,000,000 Total
Custom Events30 days
Infrastructure Events30 days
Unresolved Alert Events
Unacknowledged Alert Events
30 days
Resolved Alert Events
Acknowledged Alert Events
30 days
Captures90 days
Sysdig Platform Audit90 days