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How long incident history is retained

Understand incident-lifetime retention, shorter supporting-data periods, and what pause, archive, cancellation, and deletion do to history.

Confirmed incident records remain available for the life of the monitor. Their supporting raw checks, alert-delivery records, and chart rollups have separate retention periods.

Retention at a glance

Information Retention
Incident history Life of the monitor
Raw check logs 30 days
Alert History 14 days
Aggregated chart rollups Up to 400 days
Monitor configuration Until the monitor or account is deleted

An incident can therefore remain visible after some surrounding check and notification records have expired.

What remains in an older incident

The saved incident can continue to show its type, Active or Resolved state, start time, recovery time, duration, diagnosis, and retained diagnostic record.

The Activity Log, Checks Around Incident, or downloaded JSON can become shorter as separately retained checks and alerts age out. Missing supporting records do not mean the incident was removed or never occurred.

Paused monitors

Pausing stops new checks and alerts. Existing data continues to age under the normal retention schedule. Incident history remains while the monitor exists.

Archived monitors

Archiving preserves monitor configuration during a plan change. Raw checks, Alert History, and rollups continue to expire normally. Existing incidents remain associated with the archived monitor.

Ended subscriptions

When paid service ends, monitoring and alerts stop. Monitor configuration and incident history remain associated with the account unless the monitor or account is deleted. Time-limited supporting data continues to age normally.

Deleted monitors

Deleting a monitor stops checks and disables its public status page immediately. The monitor remains recoverable for 30 days from Recently deleted, but supporting checks, alerts, and rollups continue to age under their normal periods.

Permanent cleanup of the monitor and incident history begins after the recovery period or when Delete permanently is selected.

Deleted accounts

Account deletion is support-assisted and has a 30-day waiting period. When permanent deletion completes, monitor configuration and operational monitoring data are deleted. Limited billing, invoice, consent, security, fraud-prevention, or legal records can be retained where required.

Preserve a troubleshooting record

Before deleting a monitor, download important incident JSON and export any raw checks you still need as CSV. Store exports according to your organization's security and retention policies.

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