The ServiceNow® Data Management capabilities enable you to manage the growth of data in your instance. The Data Management capabilities were enhanced and updated in the Xanadu release.

Data Management highlights for the Xanadu release

  • Define and access all the data management rules for a table from the data management policy page.
  • Create multiple archive rules for a table.
  • Access and configure the destroy rules for deleting archived records from the data management policy page.
  • Delete older records at scale with improved performance using the table cleaner.
  • View a summary of storage consumption on your instance.

See Data Management for more information.

Important information for upgrading Data Management to Xanadu

A data management policy record is automatically created for each table that is configured with an archive rule or a table cleaner rule prior to the upgrade.

New in the Xanadu release

Data Management policies
Access a holistic view of the data management rules that you configured for a table.
Support for multiple archive rules on one table
Create multiple archive rules for a single table using a data management policy.
Table cleaner performance improvements
Automatically delete older records more efficiently using the table cleaner.
Data Management usage dashboard
View a summary of storage consumption on your instance and monitor the top 10 tables consuming the most data on your instance.

Activation information

Data Management is a Now Platform feature that is active by default.

Related ServiceNow applications and features

Table administration
Learn about working with large amounts of data using tables and records on the Now Platform.