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Understanding audits and alerts

Understanding audits and alerts

- [Instructor] Found in the reporting area of the admin console sidebar, Audits and Investigation provides logs of activity within your domain. Let's take a look at a few examples. The admin log events report displays all administrative tasks performed as well as which administrator performed the task, what time, and the IP address from which the admin console was accessed. User log events includes all user login and logout activity, the login type, as well as the time and IP address. Additional audits such as devices, calendar and drive, include filters for the respective topics. Lastly, email log search is an audit available only to super admins, allowing them to check delivery logs for message transit information. The audit log can contain hundreds, even thousands of events per day, depending on the size of your organization. With all that data, filters are an invaluable resource for helping you find what you need. With the filter area visible, you can enter filtering information…

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