---
title: "Get admin audit trail retention settings"
method: GET
path: "/audittrailmanagement/v1/auditTrailSettings"
tags: ["Audit Trail Management"]
---

# Get admin audit trail retention settings

`GET /audittrailmanagement/v1/auditTrailSettings`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://apis.druva.com/insync`
- URL: `https://apis.druva.com/insync/audittrailmanagement/v1/auditTrailSettings`
- Auth: API key in header `Authorization`

Preserving Audit Trails is useful for governance and compliance purposes in a business. This API returns the duration that your Druva Cloud Administrator has configured to retain the Administrator Audit Trails.

## Response `200`

OK

- AuditTrailRetentionSettings
  - `adminAuditTrailRetentionPolicy` integer: The Audit Trail Retention settings in the duration of seconds. Example - 2592000 Here are the observed values and translation in days/months/year. - 2592000 → 30 days - 7776000 → 3 months - 15552000 → 6 months - 31536000 → 1 year - -1 → Ever

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad Request
- `401`: The request did not include an authentication token or an expired authentication token was supplied.
- `403`: Access denied: Insufficient permissions. User requires specific access rights and minimum permissions. Details: https://help.druva.com/en/articles/15069296
- `404`: The requested resource was not found.
- `500`: The request was not processed due to an internal error in inSync Cloud.
- `501`: Requested HTTP method is not implemented.

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