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 either Chrome Browser Cloud Management or a ChromeOS device that has been enrolled into a domain.
- To see these events, you must set up Chrome Security events. For more information, see Manage Chrome Enterprise reporting connectors.
Open the audit and investigation page
Access Chrome log event data
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Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).
- On the left, click Reporting
Audit and investigation
Chrome log events.
Filter the data
- Open the log events as described above in Access Chrome log event data.
- Click Add a filter, and then select an attribute.
- In the pop-up window, select an operator
select a value
click Apply.
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(Optional) To create multiple filters for your search:
- Click Add a filter and repeat step 3.
- (Optional) To add a search operator, above Add a filter, select AND or OR.
- 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:
Attributes common to all events
Attribute | Description |
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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 |
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 |
Additional attributes specific to certain events
Attribute | Description |
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Actor group name | Group name of the actor |
Actor organizational unit | Organizational unit of the actor |
Browser version | Number assigned to the version of Chrome browser, such as 69.0.3497.23 |
Client type |
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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 |
Directory API ID | Device ID returned by the directory API |
Domain | The domain where the action occurred |
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, File upload, File download, or Web content upload |
Trigger user | The username relating to the event:
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URL | 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
Note: Chrome content transfer, content unscanned, and sensitive data transfer 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.
- Open the log events as described above in Open Chrome log event data.
- Click Add a filter
Event.
- Select the operator.
- From the drop-down list, select an option.
- Click Apply.
Chrome Threat event descriptions
Event value | Description |
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Malware transfer | The content uploaded or downloaded by the user is considered to be malicious, dangerous, or unwanted |
Password changed |
The user resets their password for the first-signed-in user account |
Password reuse | The user has entered a password into a URL that’s outside of the list of allowed enterprise login URLs |
Unsafe site visit | The URL visited by the user is considered to be deceptive or malicious |
Chrome Data Protection event descriptions
Event value | Description |
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Content transfer | Content was uploaded or downloaded from Chrome and sent for Malware or Sensitive data scanning |
Content unscanned | There are multiple reasons why a file is unscanned, including
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Sensitive data transfer | The content uploaded, downloaded, or pasted by the user is considered to contain sensitive data, as detected by the Data Protection rules |
ChromeOS Security event descriptions
- For managed guest, kiosk, or unaffiliated user sessions, user email addresses are not collected.
- 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 and Set ChromeOS device policies > Report device os information.
Event value | Description | Required policy |
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ChromeOS login failure | The user failed to sign in to their ChromeOS device | Report device telemetry > Login/Logout status |
ChromeOS login success | The user successfully signed in to their ChromeOS device | Report device telemetry > Login/Logout status |
ChromeOS logout | The user successfully signed out of their ChromeOS device | Report device telemetry > Login/Logout status |
ChromeOS user added | A user account was added to a ChromeOS device | Report device telemetry > Login/Logout status |
ChromeOS user removed | A user account was removed from a ChromeOS device | Report device telemetry > Login/Logout status |
ChromeOS device boot state change |
A ChromeOS device’s boot state has been switched to either Developer or Verified mode
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Report device os information > OS boot mode |
Manage log event data
Manage search results column data
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
.
- (Optional) To add columns, next to Add new column, click the Down arrow
and select the data column.
Repeat as needed. - (Optional) To change the order of the columns, drag the data column names.
- Click Save.
Export search result data
- At the top of the search results table, click Export all.
- Enter a name
click Export.
The export displays below the search results table under Export action results. - 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.