To enable Marketo to meet the performance demands of its customers, Marketo has a standardized Data Retention Policy used across the platform. This policy applies to the activities stored in the activity logs of people in your database.

Activities and Data Retention

There are three components to our data retention policy: a retention period of 14 days for one activity, 90 days for twelve high-volume activities; and a retention period of 25 months for other lead activities.

Activity with Retention Period of 14 days

Activities with Retention Period of 90 days

The high-volume activities listed below will be retained for 90-days. After 90-days, these activities will be permanently deleted.

* Email Delivered and Send Email activities change from 25 months to 90 days effective August 31st, 2020.  More information here.

Activities with Retention Period of 25 Months

The activities listed below will be retained for 25 months. After 25 months, all such lead activities will be permanently deleted.

• The only exception is the New Lead activity, which will always be displayed in the activity log. All other activities will be deleted, but the New Lead activity will not, giving you a permanent record of when the lead was created and how.

Retaining Data

Marketo’s data retention policy gives you a rolling 90-day view of certain high-volume activities and a rolling 25-month view of other lead activity data. To help prevent any actual data loss, Marketo has developed a Bulk Extract API that enables you to export this data directly if desired. Once exported, you will be able to host this information locally and utilize it in any way you deem necessary.

Premium Data Retention Option

Marketo offers a premium Extended Data Retention subscription option that will allow activity data to be stored for 37 months instead of the standard retention period of 25 months. The high-volume activities, however, will only be retained for 90 days even with the premium option. For more information, contact your Customer Success Manager.