Audit logs

The Signicat Audit logs service allows you to query, view and filter audit log events.

Try it in the Signicat Dashboard

To access the audit logs service, go to Signicat Dashboard > Settings > Audit logs.

What are audit logs?

Audit logs provide you with documented evidence of the sequence of activities that have affected a system, from a security and quality perspective.

Activities are represented as events, and are shown for a selected account.

Change the account

When viewing audit logs in the Signicat Dashboard, only the events for a selected account are shown. To change which account you are viewing audit logs for:

1. In the top navigation bar, expand the dropdown menu next to your organisation name.
2. Select the account that you want to view audit logs for.

Show/hide columns

By default, there are five columns of data displayed for each event in the audit logs. To modify which columns are shown in this table:

1. From the Audit logs overview, click the Columns button.
2. Tick the boxes corresponding to the information that you would like to see as a column.
3. Click Apply.

Reset to default

To reset the look of the audit logs table to default:

1. Click the Columns button.
2. Click the Default button.

See event details

To see more details about a particular event:

1. From the Audit logs overview, click on any event in the table.
2. You are taken to a new page with event details.
   • Under the Summary heading, there is key information about the audit log. You can add information as a filter from this view by clicking the corresponding filter button.
   • Under the Log data heading, there is the event data in JSON format.

Filter events

By default, all audit logs for your account are shown. You can apply filters to narrow down the events shown.

Apply date range filter

To view events for a particular date range using the date filter:

1. From the Audit logs overview, expand the date dropdown menu to the top right of the table. By default, this is set to Last 30 days.
2. Set a date filter using either:
   • The search field.
   • One of the suggested ranges.
   • The Custom date option.

Apply custom event filters

To apply custom event filters using a range of different data parameters:

1. From the Audit logs overview, click the Filters button.
2. Tick the boxes for the filters that you would like to apply.
   • Once you tick a box, you need to complete your selection with the required information presented in the user interface.
   • Some filters are multi-select, whereas some require text input.
3. To save your changes, click the Apply button.

Apply filters using previous events

To filter events based on a data parameter from a previous event:

1. From the Audit logs overview, click on any event in the table.
2. On the event details page, under the Summary heading, locate the filter that you want to apply.
3. Click the filter button to the right-hand side of that filter name.

Apply filters from the audit log table

For some columns in the audit log overview table such as Trace, the filter tool is readily available from the event list. To apply the filter, click the filter button in the applicable column.

Share the current filters

To share the currently applied filters with others such as your colleagues:

1. From the Audit logs overview, ensure you have applied all desired filters.
2. Copy the URL from your browser, and share this with the intended person.

Clear the current filters

To clear all currently applied filters from the audit logs:

1. From the Audit logs overview, click the Filters button.
2. Click the Clear button.

Export data

To export the audit logs to a CSV file:

1. From the Audit logs overview, click the Export button.
2. A CSV file containing all events that match the filters you have currently applied is downloaded.

API integration

It is also possible for you to view your audit logs using our API.

To learn about how to do this, see our Signicat Audit API reference documentation. It contains information about available endpoints and properties, in addition to sample requests and responses.

Signicat Audit API

Query, view and filter activities in the audit logs