Retention period for analytics data and recording

Feature coming soon: Data retrieval for conversations more than five years old.

This article describes recording and data retention periods, limits, and common questions around Genesys Cloud support.

Recording files

The retention period that you set for your quality management (QM) policy determines retention of recording files for policy-based recordings.

Screen recording policies have a one-year maximum retention period. Call recordings and digital recordings have no upper limits.

Note: The recording retention period for a QM policy is subject to the maximum interaction data retention period. If the recording is archived, the transcription is archived as well. For more information, see Set the maximum interaction data retention time. Even recordings that are not related to any QM policy are deleted when their date is beyond the specified maximum interaction data retention time.

Speech and text analytics data

The transcript of a recording follows the same retention period that you set for recording files via quality management (QM) policy. After the recording is deleted, the related transcripts delete, along with the topic and sentiment events that the system detects in the transcript.

Overall sentiment score, sentiment trend, and acoustics data for an interaction are retained until all the recordings with related transcripts are deleted from the interaction. For more information, see Set the maximum interaction data retention time.

SIP diagnostics

The SIP PCAP files are retained for 21 days. For more information, see SIP Diagnostics.

Audit Trail

Audit trail data is available, at a minimum, for data that is less than one year old.

Conversation detail data

Conversation detail data is retained for the lifespan of the customer contract unless you set the maximum interaction data retention time. As a result, the conversation detail data is deleted according to the set time. For more information, see Set the maximum interaction data retention time.

When using the interaction data retention setting, the minimum retention period for conversation detail data is 90 days.

Analytics reporting and recording retrieval limitations

As conversations age, Genesys Cloud does not provide as much retrievability compared with recently completed recordings. The following table illustrates the limitations that occur when accessing analytics data and recordings.

	< 1.5 Years	1.5–5 Years	> 5 Years
Searching for Conversation in Interactions view	Yes	Yes	Yes
Interaction Details view, including recording playback	Yes	Yes^*	Yes^*
Recording Bulk Export that was established via QM Policy (Automatic)	Yes	N/A	N/A
Recording Bulk Export via Bulk Action API	Yes	Yes	Yes
Recording Bulk Delete via Bulk Action API	Yes	Yes	Yes
Recording Bulk Archive via Bulk Action API	Yes	Yes	Yes
Analytics Details API	Yes	No	No
Analytics Conversation Detail Jobs API	Populated Nightly	Yes	Yes
Analytics Aggregates API	Yes	Yes	No
GET Recording API Access	Yes	Yes	Yes
Speech and Text Analytics APIs	Yes	Yes	Yes

* The interaction details view has less information available for interactions > 1.5 years. Specifically:

Recording
Details tab – only includes:
- Interaction ID
- Interaction Type
- Names of internal and external participants, if found in Genesys Cloud (as users or external contacts, respectively)
- Recording retention controls
  Other interaction details (for example, disconnect reason, start time/end time, direction, queue, duration, wrap-up information, and so on) are missing.
Timeline tab – Interaction timeline is unavailable
Transcription tab – The Transcript tab is available on enabling the transcription for the call. The Transcription tab does not include conversation events (for example, when a participant joins or leaves the interaction).

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