Audit log
  • 20 May 2025
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  • Applies to: All Board Cloud subscriptions

WHAT: Audit Logs

The Audit logs keep track of events related to user accounts, connections and related system objects which are managed through Board's Subscription Hub.

All log files include additional information about these events, such as timestamp, log type (for the Full Audit API), action type, and additional details specific for each action type.

The data is exported in TSV (tab-separated values) format.

Action type

Description

LOGIN

LOGIN events record the IP Address of the requester of every successful or failed attempt to login to or logout from a Board platform.

  • LOGIN_SUCCEEDED: The user logged in successfully, either with a locally verified password or through an external authentication mechanism.

  • LOGIN_FAILED: The user failed to connect for one of several reasons: wrong password, expired password, invalid credentials, external authentication error, invalid license, or account locked.

  • LOGOUT: The user logged out successfully.

CONNECT_TO_PLATFORM

The user made an authorized connection to the specific Board platform.

DISCONNECT_FROM_PLATFORM

The user was disconnected from the specific Board platform. These include automatic disconnections triggered by user inactivity.

USER_CREATED

The user was created in the Subscription Hub for the specific Board platform. See The Users section.

USER_UPDATED

The user had changes made to:

  • The license associated with the user (i.e. Developer/Power User/User/Lite), or

  • The roles associated with the user for the available Board Platform, or

  • One or more of the properties of the indicated user: email, name, phone, culture, office, user metadata, Office add-in flag, authentication type, password expiry option, disabled flag.

USER_DELETED

The user has been deleted.

USER_IMPORTED

The user was imported from an external source with access and authentication details included. Any import failures are tagged with USER_IMPORT_FAILED. See Import users.

EXPORT_USERS

The administrator account and IP address of the connection requesting the data export. See Export users.

USER_META_DATA_CREATED

A meta data field was created to store custom information about every user. See The User metadata section.

USER_META_DATA_UPDATED

A meta data field about users was updated.

USER_META_DATA_DELETED

A meta data field about users was deleted.

PERMISSION_GROUP_CREATED

A permission group was created with a set of licenses, roles and platforms that will be inherited by any user assigned the permission group. Failed attempts are tagged with PERMISSION_GROUP_CREATE_FAILED. See The Permission Groups section.

PERMISSION_GROUP_UPDATED

The permission group was updated. Failed attempts are tagged with PERMISSION_GROUP_UPDATE_FAILED.

PERMISSION_GROUP_DELETED

The permission group was deleted. Failed attempts are tagged with PERMISSION_GROUP_DELETE_FAILED.

PERMISSION_GROUP_SET_AS_DEFAULT

The permission group was assigned to be the default for new users.
Failed attempts are tagged with PERMISSION_GROUP_SET_AS_DEFAULT_FAILED.

REMOVE_DEFAULT_PERMISSION_GROUP

Removal of the default permission group for new users.
Failed attempts are tagged with REMOVE_DEFAULT_PERMISSION_GROUP_FAILED.

ROLE_CREATED

The new role was created as a collection of: folder security profiles, application profiles, database security profiles and/or selection security profiles and scripts. See The Roles section.

ROLE_UPDATED

The user role was updated with the attached modifications.

ROLE_DELETED

The user role was deleted.

APPLICATION_PROFILE_CREATED

The new application profile was created as a list of features for working with Capsules, Layouts, Presentations, and Procedures that are made available or denied for users assigned this application profile. See The Features section.

APPLICATION_PROFILE_UPDATED

The application profile was updated with the attached modifications.

APPLICATION_PROFILE_DELETED

The application profile was deleted.

FOLDER_PROFILE_CREATED

The new capsule folder was created as a collection of capsules to be made available to users assigned this capsule folder. See The Folder security section.

FOLDER_PROFILE_UPDATED

The capsule folder was updated with the attached modifications.

FOLDER_PROFILE_DELETED

The capsule folder was deleted.

DATABASE_PROFILE_CREATED

The new data model profile was created as a list of access rights to data model design and internal selection security. See The Database Security section.

DATABASE_PROFILE_UPDATED

The data model profile was updated with the attached modifications.

DATABASE_PROFILE_DELETED

The data model profile was deleted.

FEDERATION_CREATED

An administrator created a federation of the nominated Board platform. See The Identity Provider Federation section.

FEDERATION_UPDATED

An administrator updated a federation of the nominated Board platform.

FEDERATION_DELETED

An administrator deleted a federation of the nominated Board platform.

PLATFORM_CREATED

The nominated Board platform was created by an administrator.

PLATFORM_UPDATED

The nominated Board platform was updated.

PLATFORM_DELETED

The nominated Board platform was deleted.

SYNC_TO_DB_SETTINGS_UPDATED

The automated synchronizations with external databases for user metadata have been modified.

See Sync to Data model.

ENROLLMENT_SETTINGS_UPDATED

The nominated Board platform’s enrollment rules have been updated to customize the process that allows end users to request access to Board or to register directly in Board and access the configured platform. See The Enrollment section.

COLLABORATION_SETTINGS_UPDATED

The news feed, chat and discussion collaboration features of the nominated Board platform have been modified. See Board Collaboration services.

GENERAL_SETTINGS_UPDATED

The general settings for authentication and user communications of the nominated platform have been modified. See The General settings section.

HOW: Audit Logs

The Audit log download button in the header of the Users section allows you to download Audit log files with a customized date range.

Specifying a date range is mandatory.

To download Audit log entries in a file, click on AUDIT LOG from the Users section of the Subscription Hub to open a popup window.

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  1. Select the date range you wish to specify in the download.

  2. Click the DOWNLOAD button to download the specified log collection set to your local system.

The log files are contained in a compressed file with a ZIP extension.

HOW: Audit Log APIs

These audit logs are also accessible by using eight APIs that have been provided for this purpose.

To find out more about Board's APIs, read the Client API section, and about the Board SCIM API.

Please see APIs for Audit Logs for complete details.


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