Chrome browsers log events

Supported editions for this feature: Enterprise Plus, Education Plus. Compare your edition

As an administrator, you can use the security investigation tool to view and investigate live-state data about Chrome browsers in your organization.

For example:

  • Investigate if a browser update has reached all devices in your organization.
  • Inspect the details of browser devices where phishing events often occur. The report can help identify if a bad extension is responsible for the unsafe events. 
  • View which devices have a specific user signed in, and assess the potential damage made to different devices and browsers.

Run a search for Chrome browser data

Your ability to run a search depends on your Google edition, your administrative privileges, and the data source. You can run a search on all users, regardless of their Google Workspace edition.

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

  1. 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.

  2. Go to Menu and then Security > Security center > Investigation tool.

    Requires having the Security center administrator privilege.

  3. Click Data source and select Chrome browsers.
  4. 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.
  5. Click Attributeand thenselect an option.
    For a complete list of attributes, go to the Attribute descriptions section (later on this page).
  6. Select an operator.
  7. Enter a value or select a value from the list.
  8. (Optional) To add more search conditions, repeat steps 4–7.
  9. Click Search.
    You can review the search results from the investigation tool in a table at the bottom of the page.
  10. (Optional) To save your investigation, click Save and thenenter a title and descriptionand thenclick 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
Browser ID ID of the Chrome browser
Chrome version Number assigned to the version of Chrome browser, such as 69.0.3497.23
Device ID ID for the device/computer—for example the Hardware UUID on a Mac computer
Device name Name of the device
Device OS version Version number for the device's operating system
Device type Type of device—for example, Linux, Mac, or Windows
Machine user Email address of the device user
Registration time Time of registration of the browser. Enter a date and time, and an operator Before or After.

Take action based on search results

After you run a search in the security 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 tool to delete specific messages, send messages to quarantine, or send messages to users' inboxes. For more details about actions in the security investigation tool, go to Take action based on search results.

Manage your investigations

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