You can delete historical discovery data for cloud accounts while keeping the accounts active and operational within Prisma Cloud. This feature addresses data compliance requirements when you need to remove collected asset information, flow logs, and audit logs without disrupting your security posture or removing the cloud account from monitoring.

When you initiate discovery data deletion, the system validates your request and checks for active firewall deployments. Prisma AIRS temporarily disables monitoring for the account and marks it with a deletion-in-progress status while a background process removes all associated data from storage systems. This process removes asset data from discovery databases and log data from your monitoring infrastructure. Manually-deployed firewalls continue to inspect traffic during this process, ensuring continuous security coverage. Auto-deployed firewalls, however, do not continue to inspect traffic; the data deletion process automatically deletes the associated Terraform template which then deletes the firewall. Once deletion completes, the account becomes inactive and no longer collects any data.

The deletion process runs asynchronously to avoid impacting system performance. You cannot modify account settings or enable additional monitoring features while deletion is in progress. The system maintains audit timestamps to track when deletion was requested and completed, providing visibility into data lifecycle management activities for compliance reporting purposes.