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Summary

Ask Fern stores the questions end users ask, which is what powers the Ask Fern analytics in the Dashboard. Customers can now set those query logs to be deleted automatically after a chosen number of days, using a self-serve toggle in the Fern Dashboard instead of asking Fern to run an internal API call.

This matters for teams with privacy or data-retention policies: they can enforce a fixed retention window (for example 30 days) on their own docs site. The setting is off by default, so everyone else keeps today's behavior of retaining query logs indefinitely.

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  • fern/products/docs/pages/ask-fern/what-is-ask-fern.mdx — the Ask Fern overview owns the analytics explanation, so a Query log retention accordion was added next to Analytics in the Features list: what's retained, indefinite retention by default, the Dashboard click-path, the 1–3650 day window, that retention is org-wide, and that changing it requires Admin permissions (links to the Dashboard permissions page).
  • fern/products/docs/pages/changelog/2026-07-25.mdx — new Docs changelog entry (ai, security) for a new user-facing Ask Fern setting, per the repo's changelog conventions.

Note on the setting's location

The task described the card as living on the Dashboard's Ask Fern page below analytics. In the merged implementation (fern-platform ddffd8c) QueryRetentionSettingsCard is rendered on the docs site's Settings page, alongside the Ask AI and password-protection cards. The docs describe the Settings page location.

Link to Devin session: https://app.devin.ai/sessions/fe96d888f1d34ae59e334b007f4cdb7a

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