Today, the Data Alerts feature in Qlik Cloud Analytics retains a history of data that meets the alert condition indefinitely. An upcoming change will introduce an automated purge.
The retention records (seen in Data Alert history) of Data Alert executions will be purged after 90 days or after 10 records (if not within the 90-day window).
Why is the retention policy changing?
The Data Alert feature was not designed to support long-term retention of data sets outside the core Qlik Sense App, but to allow you to detect outliers and anomalies in your data using quick and timely alerts.
In addition, this will align the Data Alerts history with other retention periods on the platform and help eliminate ambiguity.
What do I need to do?
Unless data alert history is required beyond the set period, no action is needed from your end.
In a use case where you need additional history, use the public APIs to facilitate the availability of alert evaluations and associated data. The Data Alerts REST API can be used to perform any required backup and retention.
The change will be applied starting Monday, April 20th, 2026. During this week:
The retention rules will be implemented
History beyond the 90-day window will be purged while leaving the most recent executions untouched; this will allow reports relying on comparisons against the last evaluation to continue to work (see Comparing with the last evaluation of the alert).
The purge will happen on a rolling basis.
If you have any questions, we're happy to assist. Reply to this blog post or take your queries to our Support Chat.
