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@ian.johnsen As for the difference with retention between standard and premium, content created in Atlassian Confluence/Jira lives on for as long as your subscription is active. Premium comes with some basic automation functions to help you clean up content, but not necessarily in an ISO/SOC2 way. Archived/Deleted content…

@Kotakonda_ Bhargavi If you need something a little more thorough with audit abilities, check out Content Retention Manager for Confluence in the Atlassian Marketplace. It's designed to be simple and an automated way to deploy a company retention policy.

@Dominic Bloomfield just helped with a response

@Reg Lawton check out Content Retention Manager for Confluence in the Atlassian Marketplace, we built it for exactly this concern. While it's great for content to live forever, often that poses significant legal and compliance risks. We're working on a Jira solution as well. The app makes it incredibly easy to set global…

@Cecile Kerr would it be helpful if we brought Content Retention Manager for Confluence Cloud to Data Center?

Hi @Shayla NastasiFor Confluence Cloud there is no default retention period. Your content will live on as long as your subscription is active or you build out policies and automation. Check out Content Retention Manager for Confluence in the Atlassian Marketplace for a possible easy to use solution to help you with…

@Heidi N_ Clinefelter the straight answer: Confluence Cloud does not have a predefined retention period for content created including archived. When content is Archived, it's still available for users to recover in perpetuity and counts against your storage limits. Creating and implementing a retention period is up to our…

@Lindsey Maassel welcome to the community! Let me see if I can help. Since your question seems to be focused on content retention, I'll start with a recommendation to check out Content Retention Manager for Confluence in the Atlassian Marketplace. It's incredibly easy by design and lets you dial in a content retention…

@Stephanie Hurt by default, Confluence Premium does not have a retention period set. Everything you create lives on as long as your subscription is active (for better or worse). I wrote out a quick guide on why you should consider deploying a retention policy with your team (risk/storage/liability/etc.): Why Develop a Data…

@Stephanie Hurt in general there's no default retention policy for content created in Atlassian Confluence. There is a period after your instance goes inactive (if you abandon a free version) in which Atlassian will delete the space including the underlying content. Check out Content Retention Manager for Confluence on the…

@Lexie Westbrook As many have answered, there are best practices on configuration, space setup, access, and so on. I can share some light on best practices around data policy and information governance. Remember that everything you write in Confluence can live on forever, for better or worse. Many legal teams will caution…

@Ed Schriger following up here as this is a good topic and still relevant. In terms of best practices, I wrote some content in our knowledge base around the importance of information governance. It's a worth while read. The importance of information governance In Confluence Cloud there's no longer the ability to set global…

@Reatha Ek and @Ken Tobin Following up here in the age of Cloud, while there's not a macro built into Confluence to set retention policies and globally Delete or Purge content by default, many apps have come to the Atlassian Marketplace to help make this easy and save you on storage, clutter, and meet ISO/SOC2 compliance…

@Gaurav Tapadkar years later, and pertaining to cloud, this question persists across the community. By default the first answer remains: there is no limit on versions displayed as @Boris Berenberg called out. However, for retention policies, while there is no default in Confluence, Content Retention Manager for…

@Rory Aptekar it sounds like you may want to consider an auto delete/purge feature and having an ongoing automation with a retention policy. Putting Confluence pages/blog posts into the Archive still counts against your total storage. Additionally, for compliance, Archive/Deleted content is still recoverable by users and…

@Ritu Dixit can you share more about your use case? I recently brought Content Retention Manager for Confluence to the Atlassian Marketplace as an option to solve for removing old content, I can explore adding the feature of removing attachments or setting attachment policies to the overall feature set. 

@Keith Kennedy From what I've seen through the Rest API documentation on Confluence Cloud, retention is at the page level, not version. Setting a retention policy around specific versions of pages does not appear to be possible in the Rest API and I suspect not possible in the product in an automated way (since automation…

tl;dr You won’t find a built-in “global retention policy” page in Confluence, retention rules have to be created and managed through space-level or app-level governance tools. You can hack it together with automations, but this gets unwieldy. @Heather Lamb check out Content Retention Manager for Confluence as a possible…

@Brian Cavanagh following up here, check out Content Retention Manager for Confluence in the Atlassian Marketplace. I helped build the app as a solution to set page and global retention policies and as easy as possible. It helps declutter, save you on storage, and help with retention policy compliance (ISO/SOC2). Let me…

@nicholas.m.miller a few years late here, but in case you're looking for a self-service solution, we built an app that makes setting your own custom retention policy incredibly simple. This helps keep your confluence spaces small, manageable, and compliant to ISO/SOC retention policy regulations. Let me know if I can help…

Very excited to attend this one as a Marketplace Partner for the first time!