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View audit log activities

Who can do this?
Role: Organization admin

The audit log gives you a table of activities, organized by the date, time and actor who performed the action. The actor may be a user or the Atlassian system.

To view and search your organization's audit log:

  1. Go to admin.atlassian.com. Select your organization if you have more than one.

  2. Select Security > Audit log.

  3. Enter your search criteria in the text field. You can search for activities with users' names, email addresses, group names, or site names. You must enter an exact term.

  4. Narrow the search results by specifying the dates and activity.

  5. Click Apply to search.

It may take a few minutes for new activities to appear in the audit log.

App activity logs

These are actions performed by users and third-party apps in the form of API calls to applications like Jira and Confluence.

There are other application lifecycle logs that include activities such as App failed installation. App activity logs track actions performed by an app, such as reading or deleting data, in accordance with the app's permissions.

To view and search for app activity logs:

  1. Go to admin.atlassian.com. Select your organization if you have more than one.

  2. Select Security > Audit log.

  3. Search for Third-party app Confluence API request and/or Third-party app Jira API request and depending on your criteria select from Jira app actions or Confluence app actions category or both.

  4. Narrow the search results by specifying the dates.

  5. Click Apply to search.

How long are audit log activities stored?

The audit log includes activities within a specified timeframe. To ensure data retention within 180 days, it is essential to regularly export the audit log.

 

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