Audit Logs Retention Policy

Overview

A new setting can be added to workspaces to determine how long audit logs should be retained. Any logs older than the number of days specified will be deleted. This does not affect backups. This is to allow for greater control over the amount of storage space being used within workspaces.

Who will be affected?

This change will primarily affect users who interrogate the audit logs and system administrators.

Details

Audit logs are now automatically removed by the Alloy engine depending on a retention policy setting applied to workspaces. This policy defines the number of days audit logs should be retained for. If this setting is not present, audit logs are not removed. This setting is being made available to allow for greater control over the amount of storage space a workspace uses on the Alloy server. Where a retention policy is not configured, the audit logs will be held indefinitely.

Currently, this setting can only be set by the support team. Please contact the support team if you wish to enable this setting.

Expected Release Date

30th June 2022 as part of the Alloy v2.37 release