Vault log events

Security and investigation tool

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The security and investigation tool page lets you search for and take action on security issues related to Vault log events. You can view a record of actions performed in the Vault console, such as which users edited retention rules or downloaded export files.

Run a search in the Admin console

To run a search in the security investigation tool, first choose a data source. Then, choose one or more conditions for your search. For each condition, choose an attribute, an operator, and a value.

Sign in with an administrator account to the Google Admin console.
If you aren’t using an administrator account, you can’t access the Admin console.
Go to Menu Security > Security center > Investigation tool.
Requires having the Security center administrator privilege.
Click Data source and select Vault log events.
Click Add Condition.
Tip: You can include one or more conditions in your search or customize your search with nested queries. For details, go to Customize your search with nested queries.
Click Attributeselect an option.
For a complete list of attributes, go to the Attribute descriptions section (later on this page).
Select an operator.
Enter a value or select a value from the list.
(Optional) To add more search conditions, repeat steps 4–7.
Click Search.
You can review the search results from the investigation tool in a table at the bottom of the page.
(Optional) To save your investigation, click Save enter a title and descriptionclick Save.

Notes

In the Condition builder tab, filters are represented as conditions with AND/OR operators. You can also use the Filter tab to include simple parameter and value pairs to filter the search results.
If you give a user a new name, you will not see query results with the user's old name. For example, if you rename OldName@example.com to NewName@example.com, you will not see results for events related to OldName@example.com.

Attribute descriptions

For this data source, you can use the following attributes when searching log event data:

Attribute	Description
Actor	Email address of the user who performed the action
Additional details	Contains additional payload details such as retention period and conditions
Date	Date and time the event occurred (displayed in your browser's default time zone)
Event	The logged event action, such as View Investigation, View External Document, or Add Collaborator Begin
Matter ID	ID of the matter. This ID is not available for all events, but instead events that pertain to a matter.
Organizational unit name	The name of the organizational unit to which the action applies
Query	The search parameters the user entered for a specific search
Resource name	The resource name of the action, such as hold name or saved query name
Resource URL	The URL of a document that the user viewed
Target user	Email address of the targeted user, such as a user who was put on hold