For normal office work with low screen activity, the storage requirements will be up to 1 GB per 8 hours of workday, per user. This can vary due to multiple factors such as number or screens, resolution, framerate, color mode, if audio recording is enabled or not, user's activity level, etc. You can adjust the monitoring settings to reduce the storage requirements.

There are several ways you can reduce storage requirements:

You can delete all data of a user or computer either manually or automatically at the server level using a special script. For more information, check out this article: How to remove user data to meet GDPR compliance (On-Premise).

You cannot delete data of an individual user or computer. However, on request, we might be able to remove all data from an instance (for example, a trial deployment) on request. Please reach out to [email protected] for help.

Click the Gear icon near the top right corner of the Dashboard. Select Monitoring Settings. Select a profile from the list of monitoring profiles. You will be taken to the profile's settings:

1. Turn off the monitoring of objects/channels you don't need. For example, the SCREEN and AUDIO monitoring consume the most amount of resources. So turn them off if not needed or enable them for only the users/computers you really want to monitor.

For more information, see the Monitoring Settings section in the User Guide.

You can reduce the storage requirements (and improve privacy!) by monitoring only in particular weekdays/time by using the Monitoring Schedule.

You can do that in two ways:

1. From any monitoring profile, click the Clock icon on top.

2. You can then adjust the options under TRACKING DAYS AND TIME to schedule monitoring for all monitored objects (e.g., applications, websites, emails, etc.).

Each monitored object also comes with it's own schedule option that can be tuned (this will override the Global Monitoring Schedule).

On a monitoring profile, click the Settings icon at the right side of a monitored object:

1. At the bottom of the ...Edit settings, window, you will see the TRACKING DAYS AND TIME options.

From a monitoring profile, click the Settings icon at the right side of the SCREEN object:

1. Turning off the RECORD LOCKED SESSIONS option will save you from capturing screens when the computer is locked out.

2. Using a lower framerate in the MAXIMUM FRAMES PER SECOND field will reduce the recording size.

3. Enabling the RECORD ONLY WHEN BEHAVIOR RULE WAS VIOLATED option will record the screen only when there is a rule violation incident making it both privacy friendly and reducing recording size significantly.

4. Enabling the UPDATE SCREEN ON EVENTS ONLY option will instruct Teramind Agent to record the screen only when the user is active and ignore when they are inactive.

5. Selected color depth such as GRAYSCALE, COLOR, HIGH COLOR - etc. can also significantly affect the recording size. For example, the HIGH COLOR setting will require about 2X or more storage compared to the COLOR mode. The GRAYSCALE mode requires the least amount of space.

6. Reducing the LIVE SCREEN SCALING will reduce the screen size and the resulting recording.

7. You can also automatically delete old recording to reduce disk space consumption by using the DELETE HISTORY AFTER (DAYS) field.

For more information, see the Monitoring Settings > Editing Screen Settings section in the User Guide.

From a monitoring profile, click the Settings icon at the right side of the AUDIO object:

1. Use a lower BITRATE to reduce the audio quality and file size.

2. Disable MONITORING ALL INPUT DEVICES and/or MONITOR ALL OUTPUT DEVICES if you don't need them.

For more information, see the Monitoring Settings > Editing Audio Settings section in the User Guide.

From a monitoring profile, click the Settings icon at the right side of the EMAILS object:

1. Disable SAVE OUTGOING ATTACHEMENTS, SAVE INCOMING ATTACHMENTS and CAPTURE EMAIL CONTENT if you don't need them.

2. Set up a regular expression to ignore attachments with potentially large file size such as video, audio, image.

3. Use the DELETE ATTACHMENTS AFTER (DAYS) option to automatically remove any captured attachments after certain days.

Note that other settings might also affect the data storage. For example, you can decide to capture emails from Microsoft Outlook and ignore other email clients reducing the amount of data being captured by the Teramind Agent.

For more information, see the Monitoring Settings > Editing Emails Settings section in the User Guide.

From a monitoring profile, click the Settings icon at the right side of the PRINTED DOCS object:

1. You can ignore large documents by setting a limit in the MAXIMUM CAPTURE DOCUMENT SIZE (PAGES) field.

2. Teramind will save any printed document as a PDF if the CAPTURE ACTUAL DOCUMENT option is enabled. So, by disabling it you can save some disk space.

3. If you have multiple printers, you can exclude the printers you don't need to monitor by using regular expression(s) in the EXCLUDED PRINTER NAME (REGEXP) field.

4. Use the DELETE PRINTED DOCS AFTER (DAYS) option to automatically remove any captured documents after certain days.

For more information, see the Monitoring Settings > Editing Printed Doc / Printer Settings section in the User Guide.

You can remove screen recordings and time entries from the Time Tracking > Time Records, Time Tracking > Time Cards and the Monitoring > Screen Snapshots reports: