Google Vault: Retention, Search and Hold

Google Vault is an information governance and eDiscovery tool for Google Workspace. With Vault, you can retain, hold, search, and export users’ Google Workspace data.

License requirements

For Vault to search and retain a user’s data, users must have a Google Workspace license and a Vault license.

Vault licenses are available in the following Google Workspace Plans:

Frontline Standard and Frontline Plus
Business Plus
Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus
All Education editions
Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus (domain-verified only)

Keep track of what matters. Retain, search, and export your organization’s data from select apps with Vault for Google Workspace Business and Enterprise editions.

How licensing works:

If Vault is included with your edition, all users in your organization are automatically assigned a Vault license.
If Vault is available as an add-on license, you can buy Vault licenses for some or all users in your organization. Only users with Vault licenses assigned to them are covered by Vault. Learn more about how to get Google Vault.
If you delete a user or a required license, their data may be irreversibly purged and no longer available to Vault.

Terminology

Vault Functions and Features

Supported Data

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