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180days
Once an organization turns on pay-as-you-go audit logging, Microsoft keeps the logs of user interactions with non-Microsoft AI applications for 180 days.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“When you enable them, the system retains these audit logs for 180 days.”
Audit logs for Copilot and AI applications, Microsoft Learn (Microsoft Purview documentation), 2026, Billing for auditing non-Microsoft AI applications.
Open the original- What it measures
- Microsoft lists these logs under pay-as-you-go billing. The logs cover interactions with AI applications that are not Microsoft's own, and they are charged by the number of audit records ingested.
- What it does not show
- The logs must be switched on first, and the page says the enterprise subscription does not include them by default. Microsoft's own Copilot logs follow a different billing model.