diff --git a/config/resources/defaults.yaml b/config/resources/defaults.yaml
index 6c74dd713..d513456c1 100644
--- a/config/resources/defaults.yaml
+++ b/config/resources/defaults.yaml
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Monitoring:
   MetricAuthorization: true
   PromQLAuthorization: true
   AggregatePrefixes: ["/*"]
-  Retention: 360h
+  DataRetention: 360h
 Shoveler:
   MessageQueueProtocol: amqp
   PortLower: 9930
diff --git a/docs/parameters.yaml b/docs/parameters.yaml
index 60e7261e6..5e75ace04 100644
--- a/docs/parameters.yaml
+++ b/docs/parameters.yaml
@@ -2255,7 +2255,7 @@ type: bool
 default: true
 components: ["origin", "cache", "director", "registry"]
 ---
-name: Monitoring.Retention
+name: Monitoring.DataRetention
 description: |+
   The duration of which Prometheus should retain the monitoring data.
 type: duration
diff --git a/param/parameters.go b/param/parameters.go
index d0b75ae41..5c9d5534d 100644
--- a/param/parameters.go
+++ b/param/parameters.go
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ var (
 	Director_OriginCacheHealthTestInterval = DurationParam{"Director.OriginCacheHealthTestInterval"}
 	Director_StatTimeout = DurationParam{"Director.StatTimeout"}
 	Federation_TopologyReloadInterval = DurationParam{"Federation.TopologyReloadInterval"}
-	Monitoring_Retention = DurationParam{"Monitoring.Retention"}
+	Monitoring_DataRetention = DurationParam{"Monitoring.DataRetention"}
 	Monitoring_TokenExpiresIn = DurationParam{"Monitoring.TokenExpiresIn"}
 	Monitoring_TokenRefreshInterval = DurationParam{"Monitoring.TokenRefreshInterval"}
 	Origin_SelfTestInterval = DurationParam{"Origin.SelfTestInterval"}
diff --git a/param/parameters_struct.go b/param/parameters_struct.go
index 87a737bb6..49daa3293 100644
--- a/param/parameters_struct.go
+++ b/param/parameters_struct.go
@@ -151,11 +151,11 @@ type Config struct {
 	Monitoring struct {
 		AggregatePrefixes []string `mapstructure:"aggregateprefixes"`
 		DataLocation string `mapstructure:"datalocation"`
+		DataRetention time.Duration `mapstructure:"dataretention"`
 		MetricAuthorization bool `mapstructure:"metricauthorization"`
 		PortHigher int `mapstructure:"porthigher"`
 		PortLower int `mapstructure:"portlower"`
 		PromQLAuthorization bool `mapstructure:"promqlauthorization"`
-		Retention time.Duration `mapstructure:"retention"`
 		TokenExpiresIn time.Duration `mapstructure:"tokenexpiresin"`
 		TokenRefreshInterval time.Duration `mapstructure:"tokenrefreshinterval"`
 	} `mapstructure:"monitoring"`
@@ -448,11 +448,11 @@ type configWithType struct {
 	Monitoring struct {
 		AggregatePrefixes struct { Type string; Value []string }
 		DataLocation struct { Type string; Value string }
+		DataRetention struct { Type string; Value time.Duration }
 		MetricAuthorization struct { Type string; Value bool }
 		PortHigher struct { Type string; Value int }
 		PortLower struct { Type string; Value int }
 		PromQLAuthorization struct { Type string; Value bool }
-		Retention struct { Type string; Value time.Duration }
 		TokenExpiresIn struct { Type string; Value time.Duration }
 		TokenRefreshInterval struct { Type string; Value time.Duration }
 	}
diff --git a/web_ui/prometheus.go b/web_ui/prometheus.go
index e0b0035d2..ac936870a 100644
--- a/web_ui/prometheus.go
+++ b/web_ui/prometheus.go
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ func ConfigureEmbeddedPrometheus(ctx context.Context, engine *gin.Engine) error
 		cfg.tsdb.OutOfOrderTimeWindow = promCfg.StorageConfig.TSDBConfig.OutOfOrderTimeWindow
 	}
 
-	retention, err := model.ParseDuration(param.Monitoring_Retention.GetDuration().String())
+	retention, err := model.ParseDuration(param.Monitoring_DataRetention.GetDuration().String())
 	if err != nil {
 		// If we are here, it means that the duration that was set in the config is invalid
 		return fmt.Errorf("failed to parse retention duration: %v", err)