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Log Retention Period for Session Recordings

  • January 21, 2025
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Just trying to see what is your current data retention period for Session Recordings. I understand this depends on various factors - compliance requirements, deployment size/usage , cost-benefit, Org maturity level   etc. But posting this to get a sense of how other users are managing it . We have around 60-90 days live on appliance, plus another 90 days on a network share. As the usage increases the session recordings data is growing exponentially. But at the same time investigations may require some historical data as well. 

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  • BeyondTrust Employee
  • January 22, 2025

The session logs are retained on the appliance for a period of up to 90 days. To maintain historical data user can download session recordings from the /login interface during 90 days period or download in bulk through the BeyondTrust Integration client. 


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  • January 22, 2025

Sure, thank you.  We have integration client downloading the data once per day. Based on the session duration and count , we see appliance holding anywhere between 60-90 days of recordings. I am trying to understand how other users are handling it - typical log retention period for session recordings & live vs archival 


  • Trailblazer
  • June 12, 2025

Adding to this point - Where can we see the retention period of session logs? I see Data Retention tab under configurations. Under it, which is the correct field for session logs? Please suggest


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  • BeyondTrust Employee
  • June 12, 2025

Hello ​@AyanWS - you’ll find the details for this under /login > Mangement > Security. The guide for this section is here: https://docs.beyondtrust.com/pra/docs/on-prem-security-settings#miscellaneous, which outlines which field and setting controls which feature.


  • Trailblazer
  • June 12, 2025

Hi ​@PhillC, appreciate your response. Unfortunately, when I try to login into  /login page - it says page cannot be displayed. Please suggest. I hope this different than appliance page?


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  • BeyondTrust Employee
  • June 12, 2025

Hello ​@AyanWS - Yes, the SRA (PRA/RS) appliances have two different web interfaces - /appliance and /login. 

Please confirm you are using the fully assigned DNS Hostname to access this page? Example: https://pra.example.com/login and not the IP or locally assigned DNS name?

If you are using the full DNS Hostname, and still having issues accessing /login, then you will need to log a Support Case as something appears to be broken with your appliance.