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Overview

Bronto lets you control how long your log data is stored — both as a global default across your organisation and as custom overrides per dataset.
Data marked for deletion will enter a grace period and remains queryable before expiration.

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Organisation Policy

The Organisation Policy sets the default retention period applied to all datasets that don’t have a custom override. Your plan determines the maximum retention available. To update the default:
  1. Go to Settings → Plan → Retention.
  2. Under Organization Policy, select a retention period from the Default Retention dropdown.
  3. Click Save Default.
Available retention periods are 30 days, 90 days, 180 days, and 365 days, up to your plan maximum.

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Custom Retention Overrides

You can override the default retention for individual datasets — useful when certain data needs to be kept longer or can be discarded sooner. To apply a custom override:
  1. Under Filter Datasets, search for the dataset you want to configure.
  2. Select it — it will appear as a Dataset Rule tag.
  3. Choose a retention period from the Set retention… dropdown.
  4. Click Save.
The dataset will move from Using Default Retention into the Custom Retention Overrides list, showing its specific policy. To remove a custom override and revert a dataset to the organisation default, clear the rule from the Custom Retention Overrides list.

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Viewing Retention by Dataset

The right panel shows all datasets grouped by their retention status:
  • Custom Retention Overrides — datasets with a specific retention rule applied, and the count of datasets affected.
  • Using Default Retention — all remaining datasets inheriting the organisation default. Expand any namespace to see the individual datasets within it.