diff --git a/configs/milvus.yaml b/configs/milvus.yaml
index 383e0642c0..ed4c0accfe 100644
--- a/configs/milvus.yaml
+++ b/configs/milvus.yaml
@@ -620,6 +620,8 @@ dataCoord:
         maxSize: 67108864 # The maxmum size in bytes to force trigger a LevelZero Compaction, default as 64MB
         deltalogMinNum: 10 # The minimum number of deltalog files to force trigger a LevelZero Compaction
         deltalogMaxNum: 30 # The maxmum number of deltalog files to force trigger a LevelZero Compaction, default as 30
+    expiry:
+      tolerance: -1 # tolerant duration in hours for expiry data, negative value means no toleration and equivalent to zero
     single:
       ratio:
         threshold: 0.2 # The ratio threshold of a segment to trigger a single compaction, default as 0.2
diff --git a/internal/datacoord/compaction_trigger.go b/internal/datacoord/compaction_trigger.go
index 8a8dfa41d3..27cf286f57 100644
--- a/internal/datacoord/compaction_trigger.go
+++ b/internal/datacoord/compaction_trigger.go
@@ -658,6 +658,28 @@ func isDeleteRowsTooManySegment(segment *SegmentInfo) bool {
 	return is
 }
 
+func (t *compactionTrigger) ShouldCompactExpiry(fromTs uint64, compactTime *compactTime, segment *SegmentInfo) bool {
+	if Params.DataCoordCfg.CompactionExpiryTolerance.GetAsInt() >= 0 {
+		tolerantDuration := Params.DataCoordCfg.CompactionExpiryTolerance.GetAsDuration(time.Hour)
+		expireTime, _ := tsoutil.ParseTS(compactTime.expireTime)
+		earliestTolerance := expireTime.Add(-tolerantDuration)
+		earliestFromTime, _ := tsoutil.ParseTS(fromTs)
+		if earliestFromTime.Before(earliestTolerance) {
+			log.Info("Trigger strict expiry compaction for segment",
+				zap.Int64("segmentID", segment.GetID()),
+				zap.Int64("collectionID", segment.GetCollectionID()),
+				zap.Int64("partition", segment.GetPartitionID()),
+				zap.String("channel", segment.GetInsertChannel()),
+				zap.Time("compaction expire time", expireTime),
+				zap.Time("earliest tolerance", earliestTolerance),
+				zap.Time("segment earliest from time", earliestFromTime),
+			)
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
 func (t *compactionTrigger) ShouldDoSingleCompaction(segment *SegmentInfo, compactTime *compactTime) bool {
 	// no longer restricted binlog numbers because this is now related to field numbers
 
@@ -672,6 +694,7 @@ func (t *compactionTrigger) ShouldDoSingleCompaction(segment *SegmentInfo, compa
 	// if expire time is enabled, put segment into compaction candidate
 	totalExpiredSize := int64(0)
 	totalExpiredRows := 0
+	var earliestFromTs uint64 = math.MaxUint64
 	for _, binlogs := range segment.GetBinlogs() {
 		for _, l := range binlogs.GetBinlogs() {
 			// TODO, we should probably estimate expired log entries by total rows in binlog and the ralationship of timeTo, timeFrom and expire time
@@ -684,8 +707,12 @@ func (t *compactionTrigger) ShouldDoSingleCompaction(segment *SegmentInfo, compa
 				totalExpiredRows += int(l.GetEntriesNum())
 				totalExpiredSize += l.GetMemorySize()
 			}
+			earliestFromTs = min(earliestFromTs, l.TimestampFrom)
 		}
 	}
+	if t.ShouldCompactExpiry(earliestFromTs, compactTime, segment) {
+		return true
+	}
 
 	if float64(totalExpiredRows)/float64(segment.GetNumOfRows()) >= Params.DataCoordCfg.SingleCompactionRatioThreshold.GetAsFloat() ||
 		totalExpiredSize > Params.DataCoordCfg.SingleCompactionExpiredLogMaxSize.GetAsInt64() {
diff --git a/internal/datacoord/compaction_trigger_test.go b/internal/datacoord/compaction_trigger_test.go
index 947bb83645..7f84a1d591 100644
--- a/internal/datacoord/compaction_trigger_test.go
+++ b/internal/datacoord/compaction_trigger_test.go
@@ -2077,6 +2077,56 @@ func Test_compactionTrigger_shouldDoSingleCompaction(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.False(t, couldDo)
 }
 
+func Test_compactionTrigger_ShouldStrictCompactExpiry(t *testing.T) {
+	trigger := &compactionTrigger{}
+
+	now := time.Now()
+	expireTS := tsoutil.ComposeTSByTime(now, 0)
+	compact := &compactTime{
+		expireTime: expireTS,
+	}
+
+	segment := &SegmentInfo{
+		SegmentInfo: &datapb.SegmentInfo{
+			ID:            10,
+			CollectionID:  20,
+			PartitionID:   30,
+			InsertChannel: "test-channel",
+		},
+	}
+
+	t.Run("no tolerance, fromTs before expire time => should compact", func(t *testing.T) {
+		Params.Save(Params.DataCoordCfg.CompactionExpiryTolerance.Key, "0")
+		defer Params.Save(Params.DataCoordCfg.CompactionExpiryTolerance.Key, "-1") // reset
+		fromTs := tsoutil.ComposeTSByTime(now.Add(-time.Hour), 0)
+		shouldCompact := trigger.ShouldCompactExpiry(fromTs, compact, segment)
+		assert.True(t, shouldCompact)
+	})
+
+	t.Run("negative tolerance, disable force expiry compaction => should not compact", func(t *testing.T) {
+		fromTs := tsoutil.ComposeTSByTime(now.Add(-time.Hour), 0)
+		shouldCompact := trigger.ShouldCompactExpiry(fromTs, compact, segment)
+		assert.False(t, shouldCompact)
+	})
+
+	t.Run("with tolerance, fromTs within tolerance => should NOT compact", func(t *testing.T) {
+		Params.Save(Params.DataCoordCfg.CompactionExpiryTolerance.Key, "2")
+		defer Params.Save(Params.DataCoordCfg.CompactionExpiryTolerance.Key, "-1") // reset
+
+		fromTs := tsoutil.ComposeTSByTime(now.Add(-time.Hour), 0) // within 2h tolerance
+		shouldCompact := trigger.ShouldCompactExpiry(fromTs, compact, segment)
+		assert.False(t, shouldCompact)
+	})
+
+	t.Run("with tolerance, fromTs before expireTime - tolerance => should compact", func(t *testing.T) {
+		Params.Save(Params.DataCoordCfg.CompactionExpiryTolerance.Key, "2")
+		defer Params.Save(Params.DataCoordCfg.CompactionExpiryTolerance.Key, "-1") // reset
+		fromTs := tsoutil.ComposeTSByTime(now.Add(-3*time.Hour), 0)                // earlier than expireTime - 30m
+		shouldCompact := trigger.ShouldCompactExpiry(fromTs, compact, segment)
+		assert.True(t, shouldCompact)
+	})
+}
+
 func Test_compactionTrigger_new(t *testing.T) {
 	type args struct {
 		meta      *meta
diff --git a/pkg/util/paramtable/component_param.go b/pkg/util/paramtable/component_param.go
index 123305bd92..740e892e2f 100644
--- a/pkg/util/paramtable/component_param.go
+++ b/pkg/util/paramtable/component_param.go
@@ -3812,6 +3812,7 @@ type dataCoordConfig struct {
 	MixCompactionTriggerInterval     ParamItem `refreshable:"false"`
 	L0CompactionTriggerInterval      ParamItem `refreshable:"false"`
 	GlobalCompactionInterval         ParamItem `refreshable:"false"`
+	CompactionExpiryTolerance        ParamItem `refreshable:"true"`
 
 	SingleCompactionRatioThreshold    ParamItem `refreshable:"true"`
 	SingleCompactionDeltaLogMaxSize   ParamItem `refreshable:"true"`
@@ -4282,6 +4283,15 @@ During compaction, the size of segment # of rows is able to exceed segment max #
 	}
 	p.GlobalCompactionInterval.Init(base.mgr)
 
+	p.CompactionExpiryTolerance = ParamItem{
+		Key:          "dataCoord.compaction.expiry.tolerance",
+		Version:      "2.5.0",
+		DefaultValue: "-1",
+		Doc:          "tolerant duration in hours for expiry data, negative value means no toleration and equivalent to zero",
+		Export:       true,
+	}
+	p.CompactionExpiryTolerance.Init(base.mgr)
+
 	p.MixCompactionTriggerInterval = ParamItem{
 		Key:          "dataCoord.compaction.mix.triggerInterval",
 		Version:      "2.4.15",