# Data Retention Time Explanation

**URL:** <https://community.hivemq.com/t/data-retention-time-explanation/1108>\
**Category:** HiveMQ Cloud\
**Created:** [March 28, 2022, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.hivemq.com/t/data-retention-time-explanation/1108 "2022-03-28T12:23:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![simoncastle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@simoncastle](https://community.hivemq.com/u/simoncastle)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.hivemq.com/t/data-retention-time-explanation/1108/1 "2022-03-28T12:23:10Z")

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Could you please explain the Data Retention Time for the Free HiveMQ.  
Exactly what is retained ?

As for as I know I have not created any persistant sessions on the server, only using the default options for the HiveMQ CLI Client but the server is still showing 5 active sesions even after 3 days+ of inactivity.

![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/hivemq1/original/1X/872016fc9f4ca2516329f08ca05d98e39fe3e4a1.png)

Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![simon\_b](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@simon\_b](https://community.hivemq.com/u/simon_b)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 2:43pm UTC](https://community.hivemq.com/t/data-retention-time-explanation/1108/2 "2022-03-28T14:43:26Z")

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Hey,

The sessions + traffic views here currently display the per-month quota for the cluster.  
This means that the maximum number of concurrent existing persistent sessions you had during the current month is displayed in the capacity view.

It is a good point though that this may be confusing, so thank you for this feedback as well.

Best regards,  
Simon