gitlab-org--gitlab-foss/doc/api/audit_events.md

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"
}