Admin privileges for the audit and investigation tool

To use the audit and investigation tool you need to be an administrator with audit and investigation tool privileges. Super administrators have these privileges by default, or you can add them to a custom administrator role.  

 

Your access to the audit and investigation tool

• Your ability to use the audit and investigation tool depends on your Google edition, your administrative privileges, and the data source. You can run a search in the audit and investigation tool on all users, regardless of their Google Workspace edition.
• If you have a premium Google Workspace edition (Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, or Education Plus), you have access to the security investigation tool, which provides more advanced features. For example, super admins can identify, triage, and take action on security and privacy issues. For details, go to About the security investigation tool.

Create admin role for audit & investigation tool

You can add admin privileges for the audit and investigation tool to an existing custom role or create a new role with only the tool privileges.

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

   Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).

2. In the Admin console, go to Menu  AccountAdmin roles.
3. Choose an option:
   1. To add the privileges to an existing role, point to the custom administrator role and click View privilegesOpen privileges.
   2. To create a new admin role, click Create new role, add a name and description, and click Continue.
4. In the Services section, next to Security Center, click the Right arrow  to expand the privileges.
5. Next to This user has full administrative rights for Security Center, click the Right arrow  to expand the privileges.
6. Next to Audit and investigation, click the Right arrow  to expand the privileges.
7. Choose an option:
   • To allow the admin to run searches and see returned results, which could contain sensitive content, check the View box.
   • (DLP access only) To allow the admin to view rule-sensitive content, check the View sensitive content box.For details, see Use Workspace DLP to prevent data loss. 
     
     Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, or Education Plus only
   • To allow the admin to update content, for example, change the access control list of a document or delete an email, check the Manage box.
   • View sensitive content—View data from Chat messages, Gmail attachments, Chrome and Rules. Chat messages and attachments include those that violate DLP rules (if the View sensitive content setting is ON) or are reported as inappropriate. This privilege can help admins understand any risk that might be associated with the message.
8. Click Save or Continue.
9. If prompted, review the privileges and click Create Role.
10. Assign the role to any users. For the steps, go to Assign roles.

Related topics

• Admin privileges for the security center
• About the audit and investigation tool
• View content that triggers DLP rules (beta)
• Use Workspace DLP to prevent data loss