Audit logs

In order to increase the transparency and visibility of activities performed in the system, Adobe Experience Platform allows you to audit user activity for various services and capabilities in the form of “audit logs”. These logs form an audit trail that can help with troubleshooting issues on Experience Platform, and help your business effectively comply with corporate data stewardship policies and regulatory requirements.

In a basic sense, an audit log tells who performed what action, and when. Each action recorded in a log contains metadata that indicates the action type, date and time, the email ID of the user who performed the action, and additional attributes relevant to the action type.

This document covers audit logs in Experience Platform, including how to view and manage them in UI or API.

Event types captured by audit logs

The following table outlines which actions on which resources are recorded by audit logs:

Access to audit logs

When the feature is enabled for your organization, audit logs are automatically collected as activity occurs. You do not need to manually enable log collection.

In order to view and export audit logs, you must have the View User Activity Log access control permission granted (found under the Data Governance category). To learn how to manage individual permissions for Experience Platform features, please refer to the access control documentation.

Managing audit logs in the UI

You can view audit logs for different Experience Platform features within the Audits workspace in the Experience Platform UI. The workspace shows a list of recorded logs, by default sorted from most recent to least recent.

Audit logs are retained for 365 days after which they will be deleted from the system. If you require data of more than 365 days, you should export logs at a regular cadence to meet your internal policy requirements.

Your method of requesting audit logs changes the allowable time period and the number of records you will have access to. Exporting logs allows you to go back 365 days (in 90 day intervals) to a maximum of 10,000 records, where as the activity log UI in Experience Platform displays the past 90 days to a maximum of 1000 records.

Select an event from the list to view its details in the right rail.

Filter audit logs

Select the funnel icon () to display a list of filter controls to help narrow results.

The following filters are available for audit events in the UI:

To remove a filter, select the “X” on the pill icon for the filter in question, or select Clear all to remove all filters.

The returned audit log data contains the following information on all queries that meet your chosen filter criteria.

Export audit logs

To export the current list of audit logs, select Download log.

In the dialog that appears, select your preferred format (either CSV or JSON), then select Download. The browser downloads the generated file and saves it to your machine.

Enable alerts

You can enable audit alerts to receive notifications for the following rules:

• Audience create
• Audience update
• Audience delete
• Dataset create
• Dataset update
• Dataset delete
• Schema create
• Schema update
• Schema delete

Select the desired alert from the list to subscribe to receive notifications. For more information on alerts, see the guide on subscribing to alerts using the UI.

Managing audit logs in the API

All actions that you can perform in the UI can also be done using API calls. See the API reference document for more information.

Managing audit logs for Adobe Admin Console

To learn how to manage audit logs for activities in Adobe Admin Console, refer to the following document.

Next steps and additional resources

This guide covered how to manage audit logs in Experience Platform. For more information on how to monitor Experience Platform activities, see the documentation on Observability Insights and monitoring data ingestion.

To reinforce your understanding of audit logs in Experience Platform, watch the following video: