Chrome log events

The audit log page has been replaced with a new audit and investigation page. For information about this change, go to Improved audit and investigation experience: What's new in Google Workspace

You can use the audit and investigation page to run searches related to Chrome log events. There you can view a record of actions to track events related to managed Chrome browsers and ChromeOS devices. For example, you can see when there has been an unsafe site visit.

For a full list of services and activities that you can investigate, such as Google Drive or user activity, read through the data sources for the audit and investigation page.

Before you begin

To see all Chrome events:

• The browser must be managed by Chrome Browser Cloud Management, a ChromeOS device that’s enrolled with your organization, or a user profile managed in Chrome browser.
• You must set up reporting for Chrome security events. For details, go to Manage Chrome Enterprise reporting connectors.
• To review Chrome data-protection events, you must set up BeyondCorp Enterprise. For details, go to Protect Chrome users with BeyondCorp Threat and Data Protection.

Open the audit and investigation page

Access Chrome log event data

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

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

2. On the left, click ReportingAudit and investigationChrome log events.

Filter the data

1. Open the log events as described above in Access Chrome log event data.
2. Click Add a filter, and then select an attribute.
3. In the pop-up window, select an operatorselect a valueclick Apply.
4. (Optional) To create multiple filters for your search:

   1. Click Add a filter and repeat step 3.
   2. (Optional) To add a search operator, above Add a filter, select AND or OR.
5. Click Search.

Note: Using the Filter tab, you can include simple parameter and value pairs to filter the search results. You can also use the Condition builder tab, where the filters are represented as conditions with AND/OR operators.

Attribute descriptions

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

Attribute	Description
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
Application name	Name of the extension from the Chrome Web Store
Browser version	Number assigned to the version of Chrome browser, such as 69.0.3497.23
Client type	Unknown—If the client type is unknown Chrome browser—If the browser is managed with the Chrome Browser Cloud Management Chrome profile—If the profile is managed with the Chrome Browser (user) management ChromeOS device—If the device is managed with Chrome Browser Cloud Management
Content hash	The SHA256 hash of the content
Content name	The name of the content downloaded, such as a filename
Content size	The size of the downloaded content, in bytes
Content type	The media (MIME) type of content downloaded, such as text/html
Date	Date and time of the event (displayed in your browser's default time zone)
Device name	The name of the device
Device platform	The OS that the browser is running
Device user	The user's name as reported by the OS
Directory API ID	Device ID returned by the directory API
Domain	The domain where the action occurred
Event	The logged event action, such as Content unscanned, Unsafe site visit, or Password reuse
Event reason	Details about the action, such as File is password protected
Event result	The result of the event based on the policies and rules set. Can be one of the following: Bypassed, Blocked, Warned, Allowed, or Detected.
Profile user	The Chrome browser profile username
Scan ID	Scan ID of the content analysis scan that triggered the event
Trigger type	The user action that triggered the event, such as Unknown, Page printed, File upload, File download, or Web content upload
Trigger user	The username relating to the event: Password reuse—The username that the password belongs to Password reset—The username that the password is reset for
URL	The URL that generated the event
URL category	The content category of the URL that generated the event
User agent	The user agent string of the browser used to access the content. For example, Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4140.0 Safari/537.36.
Virtual device ID	The ID of the device. The value is platform-specific.

Filter data by Threat or Data Protection events

1. Open the log events as described above in Access Chrome log event data.
2. Click Add a filterEvent.
3. Select the operator.
4. From the drop-down list, select an option.
5. Click Apply.

Chrome Threat event descriptions

Event value	Description	Reporting connector support
Crash events	A crash, for either a tab or the browser, is detected.	Supported on Chrome browser version 112 and later
Extension install	A browser extension was installed, either by user action or by the administrator.	Supported on Chrome browser version 110 and later
Malware transfer	The content uploaded or downloaded by the user is considered to be malicious, dangerous, or unwanted.	Supported on Chrome browser version 104 and later
Login events	Note: For this event to be reported, Password Manager must be enabled. A successful user sign in to a domain with the URL specified in the Reporting Connector settings. You can see the event in the Google Security Center. Unsuccessful sign-ins are not reported.	Supported on Chrome browser version 105 and later
Password breach	Note: For this event to be reported, Password Manager must be enabled. When a user types their username and password into a website, Chrome warns them if they have been compromised in a data breach on some site or app. For more details, see Change unsafe passwords in your Google Account. Chrome also suggests that the user changes them everywhere they were used. For the specified URLs in the Admin console, the breach also is displayed in the Google Security Center window if the password was saved in Password Manager. Each URL is displayed as a separate record.	Supported on Chrome browser version 105 and later
Password changed	The user resets their password for the first-signed-in user account.	Supported on Chrome browser version 104 and later
Password reuse	The user has entered a password into a URL that’s outside of the list of allowed enterprise login URLs.	Supported on Chrome browser version 104 and later
Unsafe site visit	The URL visited by the user is considered to be deceptive or malicious.	Supported on Chrome browser version 104 and later

Chrome Data Protection event descriptions

Chrome Data Protection events are available only for customers who have purchased BeyondCorp Enterprise.

For more information about BeyondCorp and how to set it up, go to Protect Chrome users with BeyondCorp Threat and Data Protection.

Event value	Description	Reporting connector support
Content transfer	Content was uploaded, downloaded, or printed from Chrome and sent for Malware or Sensitive data scanning	Supported on Chrome browser version 104 and later Requires BeyondCorp Enterprise
Content unscanned	There are multiple reasons why a file is unscanned, including File is password protected File is too large DLP scan was unsuccessful Malware scan was unsuccessful Malware scan unsupported file type Service unavailable	Supported on Chrome browser version 104 and later Requires BeyondCorp Enterprise
Sensitive data transfer	The content uploaded, downloaded, printed, or pasted by the user is considered to contain sensitive data, as detected by the Data Protection rules.	Supported on Chrome browser version 104 and later Requires BeyondCorp Enterprise
URL filtering	The user tried to access a URL that matched a Data Protection rule set by the admin	Supported on Chrome browser version 113 and later Requires BeyondCorp Enterprise

Important: Content upload attempts, not completed uploads, are logged for Chrome Data Protection events. Uploads might not be successful due to server failures, network errors, user cancellation of the upload, or websites that don’t support file or folder uploads.

ChromeOS Security event descriptions  

• For managed guest, kiosk, or unaffiliated user sessions, user email addresses are not collected. For more details on user affiliation, see Understand user affiliation.
• To collect data for these events, you must enable all reporting or the specific options as detailed below. For details, see Set ChromeOS device policies > Report device telemetry, Set ChromeOS device policies > Report device OS information, and Set Chrome policies for users or browsers > Data controls reporting.

Event value	Description	Reporting connector support	Required policy
ChromeOS login failure	The user failed to sign in to their ChromeOS device.	Supported	Report device telemetryLogin/Logout status
ChromeOS login success	The user successfully signed in to their ChromeOS device.	Supported
ChromeOS logout	The user successfully signed out of their ChromeOS device.	Supported
ChromeOS user added	A user account was added to a ChromeOS device.	Supported
ChromeOS user removed	A user account was removed from a ChromeOS device.	Supported
ChromeOS lock success	The screen of a ChromeOS device was locked.	Not supported
ChromeOS unlock success	The screen of a ChromeOS device was unlocked.	Not supported
ChromeOS unlock failure	There was a failed attempt to unlock a ChromeOS device.	Not supported
ChromeOS device boot state change	A ChromeOS device’s boot state has been switched to either Developer or Verified mode. Devices must be enrolled in a managed domain both before and after switching boot state to generate a boot state change event.	Not supported	Report device OS informationOS boot mode
ChromeOS USB device added	A USB device was added to a ChromeOS device. This event is only reported for affiliated users.	Supported	Report device OS informationUSB peripheral status
ChromeOS USB device removed	A USB device was removed from a ChromeOS device. This event is only reported for affiliated users.	Supported
ChromeOS USB status change	An affiliated user signs into the device all existing USB connections will be reported.	Supported
ChromeOS CRD host started	An affiliated user initiated a Chrome Report Desktop (CRD) host session on a managed device.	Supported	Report device OS informationCRD sessions
ChromeOS CRD client connected	A user connected to the Chrome Report Desktop (CRD) session.	Supported
ChromeOS CRD client disconnected	A user disconnected from the Chrome Report Desktop (CRD) session.	Supported
ChromeOS CRD host stopped	An affiliated user stopped a Chrome Report Desktop (CRD) host session on a managed device.	Supported
ChromeOS rollback successful	A ChromeOS device completed an OS rollback.	Not supported	Report device OS informationReport OS update status
ChromeOS version update successful	A user successfully updated a ChromeOS device to the target ChromeOS version.	Not supported
ChromeOS version update failure	A ChromeOS device failed to update to the target ChromeOS version.	Not supported
Chrome OS device powerwash initiated	A ChromeOS device initiated a powerwash.	Not supported
Data access control	A user has triggered ChromeOS data control rules applied by the admin.	Supported	Data controls reporting

Manage log event data

Manage search results column data

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

1. At the top-right of the search results table, click Manage columns .
2. (Optional) To remove current columns, click Remove .
3. (Optional) To add columns, next to Add new column, click the Down arrow  and select the data column.
   Repeat as needed.
4. (Optional) To change the order of the columns, drag the data column names.
5. Click Save.

Export search result data

1. At the top of the search results table, click Export all.
2. Enter a name  click Export.
   The export displays below the search results table under Export action results.
3. To view the data, click the name of your export.
   The export opens in Google Sheets.

Create reporting rules

Go to Create and manage reporting rules.

When and how long is data available?

Go to Data retention and lag times.

Related topics

• Data sources for the audit and investigation page
• Chrome log events—Events and attributes