---
title: "RapidIdentity Retention Policies"
slug: "retention-policies"
description: "These are the RapidIdentity Retention Policies as visible to a System Administrator in an On-Premise system."
tags: ["RapidIdentity ", "On-Premise", "Retention", "Policy"]
updated: 2022-03-24T19:18:32Z
published: 2022-03-24T19:18:32Z
canonical: "help.rapididentity.com/retention-policies"
---

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# Retention Policies

## RapidIdentity Retention Policies

Retention policies allow System Administrators to configure which audit events are logged and, when logging into a database, how long each event will be retained before purging. These are predefined with licensing and can be edited, but new ones cannot be added.

          Note

          

Only **System** Administrators will have access to this setting. **Tenant** Administrators will not, so this function is specific to [RapidIdentity On-Premise](/v1/docs/rapididentity-on-premise). RapidIdentity Cloud tenants will have the same defaults as shown below.

          Note

          

RapidIdentity Cloud audit log file data is retained for **90 days**.

1. First, navigate to Configuration > Security > Retention Policies. The policies are organized hierarchichally, and choosing "Inherit" results in applying whatever policy is described in the next level up. ![Retention Policies - General.png](https://cdn.document360.io/4d958006-b877-42af-8de5-00e3bb7fe41d/Images/Documentation/Retention%20Policies%20-%20General.png)
2. System Administrators can modify the policy configuration by clicking **Edit**. A sidebar will appear with a dropdown, where the options will be:
  - Always Retain
  - Do Not Log
  - Retain For (in Days)
  - Inherit  

![Retain For dropdown.png](https://cdn.document360.io/4d958006-b877-42af-8de5-00e3bb7fe41d/Images/Documentation/Retain%20For%20dropdown.png)

The Drilldown functionality is currently being updated. This document will reflect when it has been reinstated.

## Related

- [Support Policies](/support-policies.md)
- [RapidIdentity On-Premise](/rapididentity-on-premise.md)