diff --git a/configs/milvus.yaml b/configs/milvus.yaml
index 5a6392e007..f7fe10f438 100644
--- a/configs/milvus.yaml
+++ b/configs/milvus.yaml
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ common:
 
   defaultPartitionName: "_default"  # default partition name for a collection
   defaultIndexName: "_default_idx"  # default index name
-  retentionDuration: 86400 # time travel reserved time, insert/delete will not be cleaned in this period. 1 days in seconds
+  retentionDuration: 0     # time travel reserved time, insert/delete will not be cleaned in this period. disable it by default
   entityExpiration: -1     # Entity expiration in seconds, CAUTION make sure entityExpiration >= retentionDuration and -1 means never expire
 
   gracefulTime: 5000 # milliseconds. it represents the interval (in ms) by which the request arrival time needs to be subtracted in the case of Bounded Consistency.
diff --git a/internal/util/paramtable/component_param.go b/internal/util/paramtable/component_param.go
index bf82df04f6..2eaacdda68 100644
--- a/internal/util/paramtable/component_param.go
+++ b/internal/util/paramtable/component_param.go
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ import (
 
 const (
 	// DefaultRetentionDuration defines the default duration for retention which is 1 days in seconds.
-	DefaultRetentionDuration = 3600 * 24
+	DefaultRetentionDuration = 0
 
 	// DefaultIndexSliceSize defines the default slice size of index file when serializing.
 	DefaultIndexSliceSize        = 16
diff --git a/internal/util/paramtable/component_param_test.go b/internal/util/paramtable/component_param_test.go
index 70777ebbc7..0bdccffa8a 100644
--- a/internal/util/paramtable/component_param_test.go
+++ b/internal/util/paramtable/component_param_test.go
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ func TestComponentParam(t *testing.T) {
 
 		// test the case coommo
 		params.Save("common.entityExpiration", "50")
-		assert.Equal(t, Params.EntityExpirationTTL.GetAsInt64(), int64(DefaultRetentionDuration))
+		assert.Equal(t, Params.EntityExpirationTTL.GetAsInt(), 50)
 
 		assert.NotEqual(t, Params.SimdType.GetValue(), "")
 		t.Logf("knowhere simd type = %s", Params.SimdType.GetValue())