Adobe Experience Manager: DAM Audit Log Purge cannot purge APPROVED or PREVIEW audit entries

Description description

When you use Dynamic Media, event types such as APPROVED and PREVIEW may be recorded in the audit log. The standard Audit Log Purge cannot delete these entries. This is a current limitation, and there is no workaround at this time.

Environments
AEM as a Cloud Service and Dynamic Media OpenAPI

Resolution resolution

This issue is a limitation of Oct 2026 and is filed as SKYOPS-161606.

The DAM types property of Audit Log Purge accepts only a fixed set of valid values. APPROVED and PREVIEW are not in this valid list. For this reason, the standard purge does not delete these logs, even after the retention period ends. If you add an unsupported type to the configuration, the Config Pipeline validation rejects it.

Custom values have the same limitation. If you set your own value for dam:assetStatus in a metadata form, that value is recorded as cq:type in the audit log. A custom value that is not in the valid list also cannot be deleted. Keep this in mind when you add new status values.