Calendar log events

Security investigation tool

Supported editions for the Calendar log events data source in the investigation tool:
Enterprise Plus, Education Plus

As your organization's administrator, you can use the security investigation tool to run searches related to Calendar log events, and to take action based on search results. From the investigation tool, you can view a record of actions to track changes to calendars, events, and subscriptions. You can also track the email notifications associated with these actions. This information is helpful when you troubleshoot issues or when your users notice discrepancies or unexpected changes to their calendars, shared calendars, or specific calendar events. Log entries usually appear within one half-hour of the user action.

Your access to the security investigation tool

Supported editions for the security investigation tool include Enterprise Plus, Education Standard, Education Plus, and Enterprise Essentials Plus.
Admins with Cloud Identity Premium, Frontline Standard, Enterprise Standard, and Education Standard can also use the investigation tool for a subset of data sources.
Your ability to run a search in the investigation tool depends on your Google edition, your administrative privileges, and the data source. If you're unable to run a search in the investigation tool for a specific data source, you can use the audit and investigation page instead. For more information, go to Improved audit and investigation experience.
You can run a search in the investigation tool on all users, regardless of the Google edition they have.

Run a search for Calendar log events

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

Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).
In the Admin console, go to Menu SecuritySecurity centerInvestigation tool.
Click Data source and select Calendar 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 below.
Click Containsselect 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 Saveenter 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 gave 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
Access level	Access level of the calendar or event (in other words, what others can access). Enter one of the following values: Editor—For a calendar, full owner access except that the access control settings can't be modified. For an event, the user may edit the event. Freebusy—Can only see if the time slot is free or busy Owner—Full access to calendar properties, access control, and events Read—Read access to calendar properties, access control, and events Root—Full owner privileges, plus access to preferences. Used for domain admins. None—Calendar or event is not visible
Actor	Email address of the user who performed the action
Actor group name	Group name of the actor. For more information, see Filtering results by Google Group. To add a group to your filtering groups allowlist: Select Actor group name. Click Filtering groups. The Filtering groups page displays. Click Add Groups. Search for a group by entering the first few characters of its name or email address. When you see the group you want, select it. (Optional) To add another group, search for and select the group. When you finish selecting groups, click Add. (Optional) To remove a group, click Remove group . Click Save.
Actor organizational unit	Organizational unit of the actor
API kind	API through which the logged action was made. Options include: Android (first- and third-party calendar applications) CalDAV (usually Apple devices) Calendar API Calendar for iOS Calendar Web Gmail ICS Parser (event emails from other calendar systems) Events from Gmail EWS (used by Calendar Interop)
Appointment schedule title	Title of the appointment schedule
Calendar ID	ID of the calendar where the logged action happened—for example, the calendar in which an event is taking place, or a calendar that users can subscribe to. The value for this attribute is often a user's email address such as user@example.com.
Client-side encrypted	Specifies if a calendar event is client-side encrypted or not
Date	Date and time the event occurred (displayed in your browser's default time zone)
Event	The logged event action, such as Event deleted, Calendar title changed, or Event guest removed
Event end time	Time the event ended
Event ID	ID of the calendar event
Event start time	Time the event started
Event title	Title of the calendar event
Guest response status	Guest's response to a calendar invite—for example, Accepted, Declined, or Maybe
Interop error code	Error code associated with an unsuccessful request. Available only when Calendar Interop is turned on.
IP address	Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with the logged action. Usually reflects the user's physical location, but could be a proxy server or a virtual private network (VPN) address.
New value	New value of an attribute. For example, enter the title for a new calendar, the description for a new calendar, or the new location.
Notification message ID	ID of the email notification
Notification method	The medium by which the notification was sent. Select one of the following values: Alert - Notification by popup window or alarm Default - Calendar default notification mechanism Email SMS
Notification type	Type of notification set, such as Calendar access granted, Canceled event, or New event
Old event title	If the title of a calendar event has been changed, this is the previous title of the event.
Organizer calendar ID	Calendar ID of this event's organizer
Recurring	The calendar event is a recurring event.
Remote exchange server URL	The URL of the Exchange Web Services (EWS) endpoint. This is available only when Calendar Interop is turned on.
Requested period end time	If the logged action is associated with a time window, this field contains the end of the time window. For example, the end time of an availability lookup in Calendar Interop.
Requested period start time	If the logged action is associated with a time window, this field contains the start of the time window. For example, the start time of an availability lookup in Calendar Interop.
Subscriber calendar ID	If a user subscribed to a calendar, then this field captures the user's calendar ID.
Target	This can be a guest email or grantee email in case there's a change of access or change of recipient email.
User agent	User agent software associated with the calendar event

Take action based on search results

After you run a search in the investigation tool, you can act on your search results. For example, you can run a search based on Gmail log events, and then use the investigation tool to delete specific messages, send messages to quarantine, or send messages to users' inboxes. For more details about actions in the investigation tool, go to Take action based on search results.

Create activity rules & set up alerts

To help prevent, detect, and remediate security issues efficiently, you can automate actions in the investigation tool and set up alerts by creating activity rules. To set up a rule, set up conditions for the rule, and then specify what actions to perform when the conditions are met. For details and instructions, go to Create and manage activity rules.

Manage your investigations

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View your list of investigations

To view a list of the investigations that you own and that were shared with you, click View investigations. The investigation list includes the names, descriptions, and owners of the investigations, and the date last modified.

From this list, you can take action on any investigations that you own—for example, to delete an investigation. Check the box for an investigation, and then click Actions.

Note: Directly above your list of investigations, under Quick access, you can view recently saved investigations.

Configure settings for your investigations

As a super administrator, click Settings to :

Change the time zone for your investigations. The time zone applies to search conditions and results.
Turn on or off Require reviewer. For more details, go to Require reviewers for bulk actions.
Turn on or off View content. This setting allows admins with the appropriate privileges to view content.
Turn on or off Enable action justification.

For instructions and details, go to Configure settings for your investigations.

Manage columns in your search results

You can control which data columns appear in your search results.

At the top-right of the search results table, click Manage columns.
(Optional) To remove current columns, click Remove item.
(Optional) To add columns, next to Add new column, click the Down arrowand select the data column.
Repeat as needed.
(Optional) To change the order of the columns, drag the column name.
Click Save.