Before you can archive or delete data, you must configure the archiving and deletion feature as described in Audit Data Archiving and Deletion in Monitor .

Software AG recommends that you remove audit data from the IS Core Audit Log and the Process Audit Log databases regularly to keep your logging at peak performance. To remove audit data, you can either archive or delete it, as follows:

As an alternative to using an Archive database, you can store process audit log data in a separate partition. For information about configuring partitions, see Overview of Using Partitions for Process Audit Log Data.

After you archive or delete audit data, you can no longer view it in My webMethods. However, if you archive data, you can still query the Archive database using SQL. The following table lists the methods to archive or delete document, process, service, and Integration Server data from the IS Core Audit Log and Process Audit Log databases.