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Security log retention for Cloudflare investigations

Keep Cloudflare evidence available long enough to investigate incidents, support audits, and compare current behavior against history.

What Flarehawk gives this workflow

Each use case starts from Cloudflare telemetry and ends with evidence your team can use.

Retention by plan

Search back 7 days on Free, 30 days on Detect, one year on Investigate, or one to five years on Enterprise.

Searchable incident evidence

Retained logs stay useful for investigations, not just archived away from the analysts who need them.

Exports for audits

Use retained evidence and exports to support post-incident reviews and compliance workflows.

From setup to investigation

The same core loop supports analytics, autonomous investigation, and retention-driven evidence review.

1

Cloudflare logs are ingested and normalized as they arrive.

2

Flarehawk stores log history according to the selected plan.

3

Analysts search retained events during investigations.

4

Vigil uses historical context to explain current alerts.

5

Teams export evidence when an audit or review requires it.

Use-case questions

Why not only keep logs in cold storage?

Cold storage can be useful, but investigations move faster when evidence remains connected to detections, search, and incident context.

Can Enterprise retention be customized?

Yes. Enterprise is the right path when retention, volume, support, or MSP requirements need a custom agreement.