Metadata retention

Last modified: Tuesday February 18, 2025.

To view and change system settings, you must have the correct permissions. See Alta Video Deployment settings.

Some Alta Video features require the storage of video stream metadata. You can configure how long Alta Video retains the different types of metadata for your deployment.

For Alarms and Events, it is possible to retain metadata for longer periods than the video data. You might not be able to view the video from an alarm, if the metadata is retained but the video is deleted.

Older Alarms and Events metadata is automatically deleted when there are more than 100,000 alarms or events.

Configure metadata retention periods

  1. Open the System System tool.
  2. From Deployment, select Settings.
  3. Select Metadata retention.
  4. Enter the number of days to retain each type of data.
  5. Click Done.