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What activities does the audit log include?
The audit log tracks key activities that occur within Atlassian organization. Use these activities to diagnose problems or questions related to user details, product access, user accounts, and organization settings.
Who can do this? |
The audit log tracks the administration activities related to:
Directories, users, and groups
Products and product access
Security configuration
General organization settings Track user-created activity
Product audit logs
Audit logs already exist in Jira Cloud and Confluence Cloud. To access audit logs in Atlassian Administration, you must have atleast Atlassian Guard Standard.
The table below shows the types of activities you can find in each audit log.
| Jira Cloud / Confluence Cloud | Atlassian Guard Standard | Atlassian Guard Standard + Premium Product | Atlassian Guard Premium | Cloud Enterprise |
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Scope | Each individual product | All sites and products added to the organization | All sites and products added to the organization Jira and Confluence | Jira and Confluence | Jira and Confluence |
Storage | Determined by each product’s storage limits | Retain for 180 days | Retain for 180 days | Retain for 180 days | Retain for 180 days |
To find out about audit log events available in each product:
User-created activity
Who can do this? |
By default, the audit log tracks user-created activity for all accounts, such as viewing or creating a Confluence page.
In admin.atlassian.com there are references to when a user was Last active. This refers to the last time the user viewed a product's page for a minimum of 2 seconds, which may differ from the audit logs activities.
You can choose whether to store user-created content such as page titles in the audit log. When you update your settings in the audit log, you can see these changes in activity.
Stored - you can see the Confluence page title and/or Jira issue identification in the audit log.
Not Stored – you’re unable to see the Confluence page title and/or Jira issue identification in the audit log.
Data residency considerations
Data residency isn’t available for the audit log. You may want to update the audit log settings to exclude sensitive content. Understand data residency
Change settings for user-created activity
To change the user-created activity settings:
Go to admin.atlassian.com. Select your organization if you have more than one.
Select Security > Audit log.
Select Settings.
For each product choose whether to store user-created activity.
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