Google Vault is the eDiscovery and compliance solution for G Suite, allowing customers to retain, hold, search, and export their data.
What is Google Vault?
Google Vault lets you retain, hold, search, and export data to support your organization’s archiving and eDiscovery needs. Vault supports:
- Email messages
- Chats in classic Hangouts with history turned on and Google Talk chats that are on the record
- Google Groups
- Files in Google Drive and Team Drives
- Conversations in Hangouts Chat
Vault is entirely web-based, so there's no need to install or maintain any software. Vault is included with G Suite Enterprise, Business, Education, or Drive Enterprise edition.
Vault API
The Vault API lets you manage:
Matters—each matter is a container for all of the data related to a specific case or investigation. A matter includes:
- Saved search queries
- A list of accounts with data on hold
- A list of the accounts that can access the matter
- Export sets for the matter
- An audit trail for the matter
- Holds—allow you to preserve messages and files indefinitely to meet legal or preservation obligations. If a user who's subject to a hold deletes data, it's removed from the user's view, but the data is preserved in Vault. As long as the hold is in place, you can search and export that data.
- Exports—create, list, download, and delete Vault exports.
