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title: "Insights On-Premises: Administration"
slug: "insights-on-premises-data-retention-policy"
updated: 2026-04-12T10:05:29Z
published: 2026-04-12T10:05:29Z
canonical: "support.controlup.com/insights-on-premises-data-retention-policy"
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# Insights On-Premises: Data Retention Policy

Important

Before you use this feature, make sure to have backups of your activity files. Learn how to make backups [here](/v1/docs/insights-on-premises-activity-file-backup).

Insights On-Premises (IOP) stores historical data for an unlimited period of time on your data disk(s). With the Data Retention Policy feature in versions 8.7 and higher, you can define the number of days that you want to retain IOP data on your appliance disks.

You can precisely define which type(s) of data to retain:

- **Processes**  

Data collected from processes running on a computer, such as CPU utilization, memory usage, disk IOPS
- **Sessions**  

Data collected during a login session (RDSH, VDI, etc.). For example, the login time, username, and the resources acquired by the session (CPU, RAM, etc.)
- **Computers**  

Data collected from a computer, hypervisor host, and VDI. This includes CPU utilization, memory usage, etc.
- **Hosts**  

Data collected from the virtualization host, such as CPU usage, memory usage, etc
- **CUIOP**  

Data collected from Citrix ADC, Gateway, Load balancer, XD app, XD session, Top insights, HEC logs, and Container logs
- All data

You must set the range between **10** and **9999** days.

## Prerequisites

- IOP version 8.7 or higher
- The IOP appliance must be an OVA installation. Linux-based installations aren't supported.
- The password for the master node and the data node **must be indentical**.

## How to Set a Data Retention Policy

By default, the data retention is set to 2184 days. ![Data Retention Policy page](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/image-W3VCF6RE.png)

To set the number of days that each data type should be retained, select its checkbox and enter a digit in the **Days** field. For this example, we want to keep process data for 30 days, session data for 60 days, and all other data for 90 days. ![All data section](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/image-N1D71ZK2.png)