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Audit Events API (PREMIUM ONLY)

The Audit Events API allows you to retrieve instance audit events.

To retrieve audit events using the API, you must authenticate yourself as an Administrator.

Retrieve all instance audit events

GET /audit_events
Attribute Type Required Description
created_after string no Return audit events created on or after the given time. Format: ISO 8601 YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ
created_before string no Return audit events created on or before the given time. Format: ISO 8601 YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ
entity_type string no Return audit events for the given entity type. Valid values are: User, Group, or Project.
entity_id integer no Return audit events for the given entity ID. Requires entity_type attribute to be present.

By default, GET requests return 20 results at a time because the API results are paginated.

Read more on pagination.

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" https://primary.example.com/api/v4/audit_events

Example response:

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "author_id": 1,
    "entity_id": 6,
    "entity_type": "Project",
    "details": {
      "custom_message": "Project archived",
      "author_name": "Administrator",
      "target_id": "flightjs/flight",
      "target_type": "Project",
      "target_details": "flightjs/flight",
      "ip_address": "127.0.0.1",
      "entity_path": "flightjs/flight"
    },
    "created_at": "2019-08-30T07:00:41.885Z"
  },
  {
    "id": 2,
    "author_id": 1,
    "entity_id": 60,
    "entity_type": "Group",
    "details": {
      "add": "group",
      "author_name": "Administrator",
      "target_id": "flightjs",
      "target_type": "Group",
      "target_details": "flightjs",
      "ip_address": "127.0.0.1",
      "entity_path": "flightjs"
    },
    "created_at": "2019-08-27T18:36:44.162Z"
  },
  {
    "id": 3,
    "author_id": 51,
    "entity_id": 51,
    "entity_type": "User",
    "details": {
      "change": "email address",
      "from": "hello@flightjs.com",
      "to": "maintainer@flightjs.com",
      "author_name": "Andreas",
      "target_id": 51,
      "target_type": "User",
      "target_details": "Andreas",
      "ip_address": null,
      "entity_path": "Andreas"
    },
    "created_at": "2019-08-22T16:34:25.639Z"
  }
]

Retrieve single instance audit event

GET /audit_events/:id
curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" https://primary.example.com/api/v4/audit_events/1

Example response:

{
  "id": 1,
  "author_id": 1,
  "entity_id": 6,
  "entity_type": "Project",
  "details": {
    "custom_message": "Project archived",
    "author_name": "Administrator",
    "target_id": "flightjs/flight",
    "target_type": "Project",
    "target_details": "flightjs/flight",
    "ip_address": "127.0.0.1",
    "entity_path": "flightjs/flight"
  },
  "created_at": "2019-08-30T07:00:41.885Z"
}