System Administrators, Enterprise Administrators, and Organization Administrators can enable alert purging by selecting purge criteria for an organization. The purge criteria is the number of days after an alert or event has ended.

The purge deletes all ended alerts, events, and their related attachments from the system. Purging ended alerts and events is disabled by default and can be enabled per organization. Suborganizations do not inherit purge criteria from the enterprise organization. Sub enterprise organizations and their suborganizations do not inherit purge criteria from a super enterprise organization.

Any changes made to the purge criteria take effect at the next scheduled purge.

Only ended alerts and events are purged. Drafts alerts and events, templates, manual logs, the operator audit trail, and scheduled and recurring alerts are not purged.

For events, purge criteria are applied after the last alert for the event is published. For example, if an event is for 30 days with one recurring alert per day, and the purge criteria is set to 120 days, then all 30 alerts are purged on the 121st day after the last alert for the event is ended.

1. In the navigation bar, click .
2. In the Setup section, click Purge Ended Alerts.
3. Optionally, in the Status section, click the link in the in the Result field to view information about the last purge job, including the date of the last purge and the number of alerts that were purged.
4. In the Schedule section, select the purge criteria from the Purge Ended Alerts list. You can select to purge ended alerts and events after 90, 120, or 180 days.
5. Click Save.