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Audit and investigation page: Review activities on your organization’s devices

Supported editions for this feature: Business Plus; Enterprise; Education Standard and Education Plus; G Suite Business; Cloud Identity Premium.  Compare your edition

You can use the audit and investigation page to run searches related to Device log events. There you can view a record of actions on computers, mobile devices, and smart home devices that are used to access your organization's data. For example, you can see when a user added their account to a device or if a device’s password doesn’t follow your password policy. You can also set an alert to be notified when an activity occurs.

For a full list of services and activities that you can investigate, such as Google Drive or user activity, read through the data sources for the audit and investigation page.

Open the audit and investigation page

Before you begin

• To see all audit events for mobile devices, the devices need to be managed using advanced device management. 
• To see changes to applications on Android devices, you must turn on application auditing.
• You can’t see activities for devices that sync corporate data using Google Sync.
• If you downgrade to an edition that doesn't support the audit log, the audit log stops collecting data for new events. However, old data is still available to admins.

Access Device log event data

2. On the left, click ReportingAudit and investigationDevice log events.

Filter the data

1. Open the log events as described above in Access Device log event data.
2. Click Add a filter, and then select an attribute.
3. In the pop-up window, select an operatorselect a valueclick Apply.

4. (Optional) To create multiple filters for your search:

   1. Click Add a filter and repeat step 3.
   2. (Optional) To add a search operator, above Add a filter, select AND or OR.

5. Click Search.

Note: Using the Filter tab, you can include simple parameter and value pairs to filter the search results. You can also use the Condition builder tab, where the filters are represented as conditions with AND/OR operators.

Attribute descriptions

For this data source, you can use the following attributes when searching log event data:

Manage log event data

Manage search results column data

You can control which data columns appear in your search results. 

1. At the top-right of the search results table, click Manage columns.
2. (Optional) To remove current columns, click Remove.
3. (Optional) To add columns, next to Add new column, click the Down arrowand select the data column.
   Repeat as needed.
4. (Optional) To change the order of the columns, drag the data column names.
5. Click Save.

Export search result data

1. At the top of the search results table, click Export all.
2. Enter a nameclick Export.
   The export displays below the search results table under Export action results.
3. To view the data, click the name of your export.
   The export opens in Google Sheets.

Create reporting rules

Go to Create and manage reporting rules.

When and how long is data available?

Go to Data retention and lag times.

Related topics

• Data sources for the audit and investigation page

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