Voice audit log

Understand users voice activity
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As an administrator, you can use the Voice audit log to track the Google Voice activity in your organization. For example, you can see the details of a user’s texts and calls, including the cost and duration.

Step 1: Open your Voice audit log

  1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

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

  2. From the Admin console Home page, go to Reports.

    To see Reports, you might have to click More controls at the bottom.

  3. On the left, under Audit, click Voice.
  4. At the top right, click Select columns Select columns and select the data that you want to show in your log.
    See below for how to interpret and customize log data.

Step 2: Understand Voice audit log data

Data you can view
Data type Description
Event Name The action that was logged, such as sending a text or assigning a phone number.
Event Description Details of the event. For example, calls made by a user from a Voice number and their cost and duration.
Date Date and time the event occurred (displayed in your browser's default time zone).
User The name of the user who performed the action.
Destination The phone number to which the call was placed or text sent.
Source The phone number from which the call was placed or text sent.
Duration The length of time the call lasted.
Group Message Shows whether the text was sent to a group or an individual.
Cost The cost, if any, of the call or text.

Event Name descriptions

Data type Description
Added phone line to desk phone Phone number added to a specific desk phone.
Address updated Details of the updated address associated with a user’s voice number.
Autoattendant call received Details of each time an auto attendant received a call.
Autoattendant call transferred Details of each time an auto attendant transferred a call to another phone number.
Autoattendant deleted Details of each time a user deleted an auto attendant message. 
Autoattendant published

Details of each time a user changes an auto attendant message..
Call placed Details of each time a user placed a call.
Call received Details of each time a user received a call.
Desk phone assigned Details of the desk phone and the user assigned to it.
Desk phone deprovisioned Details of the desk phone that was removed from Voice.
Desk phone provisioned Details of the desk phone that was added to Voice.
Desk phone unassigned Details of the desk phone and the user unassigned from it.
Phone number provisioned Details of the phone number added for a user.
Phone number provisioned for autoattendant Details of the phone number added for an auto attendant.
Phone number unassigned Details of the phone number unassigned from a user.
Phone number unassigned for autoattendant Details of the phone number unassigned from an auto attendant.
Removed phone line from desk phone Details of the phone line removed from a desk phone.
Text message received Details of the text received by a user.
Text message sent Details of the text sent by a user.

Step 3: Customize and export your audit log data

Filter the audit log data by user or activity

You can narrow your audit log to show specific events or users. For example, find all log events for when a particular user created a conversation.

  1. Open your Voice audit log as shown above.
  2. If you don't see the Filters section, click Filter Filter.
  3. Enter or select the criteria for your filter. You can filter any combination of the data you can view in the log.
  4. Click Search.

Filter by organizational unit

You can filter by organizational unit to compare statistics between child organizations in a domain.

  1. Open your report as shown above.
  2. On the left, under Filters, select an organizational unit from the list.

You can only filter the current organization hierarchy, even when searching for older data. Data before December 20, 2018 will not appear in the filtered results.

Export your audit log data

You can export your audit log data to Google Sheets or download it to a CSV file.

  1. Open your audit log as shown above.
  2. (Optional) To change the data to include in your export:
    1. On the toolbar, click Select columns Select columns.
    2. Check the box next to the data you want to export and click Apply.
  3. On the toolbar, click Download Download.

You can export up to 210,000 cells. The maximum number of rows depends on the number of columns you select. Audit logs to Sheets are limited to 10,000 rows, while CSV exports can include up to 500,000 rows.

Export your audit log to BigQuery

Only available with Voice Premium

To export logs and usage reports to BigQuery, see Set up BigQuery logs in the Admin console.

How old is the data I'm seeing?

For details on exactly when data becomes available and how long it's retained, see Data retention and lag times.

Step 4: Set up email alerts

You can track user activities by setting up email alerts.

  1. Open your Voice audit log as shown above.
  2. If you don't see the Filters section, click Filter Filter .
  3. In the Filters section, select the criteria to filter. You can use any combination of filters, except for Date and time range.
  4. Click Set Alert.
  5. Enter a name for the alert.
  6. Choose the recipients of the email alert:
    • Check the box to deliver the email alert to super administrators.
    • Enter the email addresses of any other email alert recipients.
  7. Click Save.

To edit your custom alerts, refer to Administrator email alerts.

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