Authentication Audit Log Export

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The Export Audit Log provides records of various activities that took place in your community. The export will include a timestamp, user name, type of event, etc. There are currently two types that you can export.

Member Authentication
Application Events

Audit Type: Member Authentication

Community administrator can use this report to check whether members were able to login successfully, how members access the community, how many times a member has logged it, etc.

Date Filter: Download data for a specific time period by entering the start date and end date

The following fields are included in the Excel or CSV file:

Date/Time: Date and time of member login.
IP: Network IP address of the user.
Type: a.Authentication success- Logged in successfully
b.Authentication failure- Failed to log in due to incorrect email or password.
c.Authentication success but declined- Failed to log in due to banned from community participation.
Mechanism: a.Email.token- authenticated using temporary verification or password reset link
b.Email.password- authenticated using IdeaScale credentials
c.Social login- authenticated using social network credentials.
Source Name: This field will show the user's profile name if the user is granted access or else Anonymous due to incorrect email/password combination
Source Email: Email address of the member who is registered with the community.
Via Identity Type: Email or Social Login.
Via Identity: Email address of the user if the above field is Email or link to the profile page of the social website if the above field is a social login.
Target Name: This field will show the user's profile name if the target email is registered with the community or else the field will be blank due to an invalid email address.
Target Email: Email address of a user at the time of log in.

Note: Source name/email is the same as the target name/email if authenticated successfully.

Audit Type: Application Events

This report will display all the reports that have been exported in the community by any of the administrators.

Date/time: Date and time when the event occurred
Community: The name of the community.
User: User name or profile name.
Audit Type: The specific feature that was changed such as Campaign Updated or Member Bulk Upload.
Audited Item Id: The ID associated with the Audit Type
Audited Item Name: The name of the item that had an action taken on it. For example, if a Campaign was updated this row would show the name of the campaign that was changed.
Audited Item Parameters: The parameters selected or enabled before exporting the data. For eg: If groups were not enabled in the Export Member Data it will show as excel|false|false|America/Los_Angeles.

Here is a list of events that is captured in the audit logs:

Campaign create, update and delete
Idea custom field
Create/Update/Delete Idea Field
Sort Idea Field (Misc Settings)
Merge Idea Field
Customize Site Behavior settings
Community General Settings
Look and Feel settings
Tag settings
Tab Settings
Checklist settings
Social Share settings
Access Restriction Settings
Moderation Settings
Widget
Audit logging report
Member custom field
Create/Update/Delete Member Field
Sort Member Field
Exports from Admin Panel
Exports from Moderation Panel
Exports from Member Management (if any)
Exports Dashboard Reporting
Export Community (Ditto Copy)
Import Community (Ditto Copy)
Import Idea
Import Comment
Import Vote
Invite Member (Member Management)
Import Member (Member Management)
Import Member Status (Member Management)
Import Member Username (Member Management)
Import Member Hide Identity (Member Management)
Import Member Role Assigned (Member Management)
Export data reports

Please Note: The active admin in the community can also get the information using API endpoint /v1/audit-logs.