Audit Logs

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The Audit Logs feature is part of the Compliance+ Add-On.

The Audit Logs feature provides comprehensive tracking of changes made by you and your team members within your organization's Friendly Captcha dashboard. This lets you keep track of what changes were made, when those changes were made, and by which user. The activity trail created by the Audit Logs feature is persistent and cannot be modified, so it can help you to satisfy enterprise compliance requirements and can help with security investigations.

Audit Logs are particularly useful when many different team members have access to make changes on your organization's Friendly Captcha dashboard. Audit Logs include activity like creating, modifying or deleting Applications, creating or deleting API keys, inviting users, and so on. When you combine Audit Logs with Enhanced Access Control, you will have tight control over security and have full oversight of changes that are made.

This page shows you how you and your team members can use Audit Logs in the Friendly Captcha Dashboard. If you have any trouble, please do contact support and we'd be more than happy to help!

Enabling Audit Logs

Audit Logs are enabled by default for all customers with the Compliance+ Add-On.

Using Audit Logs

Overview

In the Friendly Captcha Dashboard, navigate to the Audit Logs page. It looks like this:

Screenshot of Audit Logs

There are three columns:

• Description: A summary of what changed.
• Actor: The display name of the user that made this change.
• Timestamp: The date and time of the change.

Showing further details

You can click on an item to show more detailed information. In the screenshot below, the first item in the list is expanded:

Screenshot of the details for an Audit Logs entry

The details for every event will always include these two fields:

• Actor: The user that made this change.
• Resource: The resource that the change relates to (e.g. an Application, API Key, Widget Theme, etc).

For some events, the details will also show the value before and after the change:

• The old value before the change is shown by the line starting with a - symbol and is highlighted in red.
• The new value after the change is shown by the line starting with a + symbol and is highlighted in green.

Selecting a date range

If you want to view activity for a particular time period, click the date selector:

Screenshot of Audit Logs date selector

Controlling who can view Audit Logs

Due to the sensitive nature of Audit Logs, only the user with the Owner role can view Audit Logs.