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[DOCS-11459] Clarify Audit Trail default data retention period #30538

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6 changes: 4 additions & 2 deletions content/en/account_management/audit_trail/_index.md
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Expand Up @@ -71,9 +71,11 @@ To enable archiving for Audit Trail, navigate to your [Organization Settings][3]

### Retention

Retaining events is an optional feature for Audit Trail. Scroll down to *Retention* and click the *Retain Audit Trail Events* toggle to enable.
Retaining events is an optional feature for Audit Trail. In the *Retention Period* section, click the *Change retention period*.

The default retention period for an audit trail event is seven days. You can set a retention period between three and 90 days.
When you enable Audit Trail, the default retention period for an audit trail event is 90 days. You can set the retention period to: 3, 7, 15, 30, or 90 days.

When Audit Trail is disabled, the retention period is automatically set to seven days and events from the last seven days are retained.

{{< img src="account_management/audit_logs/retention_period.png" alt="Audit Trail Retention setup in Datadog" style="width:80%;">}}

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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion content/en/data_security/data_retention_periods.md
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Expand Up @@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ attributes:
- **Spans**: 90 days
- product: Audit Trail
data_type: |
- **Audit logs**: 90 days
- **Audit logs (Audit Trail enabled)**: 90 days
- **Audit logs (Audit Trail disabled)**: 7 days
- product: Browser RUM
data_type: |
- **Events**: 30 days
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