#Objective

Auditing logs, stores and exposes all significant activity happening on Data Platform, so you can meet compliance obligations, enforce internal governance, and provide transparency to your stakeholders.

Every create, update, delete and administrative action performed on a resource is recorded as an audit event. Events are retained and can be filtered, browsed and reviewed by authorized users.

#Access levels

Auditing is exposed at two levels:

#Project-level auditing

In the Control Center of any Project, open the Auditing tab to see every significant event that happened inside that Project.

Each event is displayed with the following columns, in order:

You can search the events by text, filter them by service, resource type and a custom time window, and switch to the organization-level view at any time from the same page.

#Event details

Click the info icon at the end of any row to open the event detail panel. From there, two views are available:

• Event details: the full payload of the event: actor, action, target resource, timestamps and any metadata recorded with the event.

  

• Comparison: a side-by-side diff of the resource before and after the action, so you can see exactly what changed.

  

#Organization-level auditing

From Organization Settings, open the Auditing tab to see organization-level activity.

Currently tracked at the organization level:

• Organization IAM (roles, policies, authentication providers)
• Member management (invitations, removals, role assignments)

Coming in upcoming releases:

• Billing activity
• Quotas
• Other organization-level settings

The organization-level view is scoped strictly to organization-level resources. For Project-internal activity, open the Project and use its own Auditing page.

#Roles

Auditing access is gated by two dedicated roles. The same two role names exist at both levels (organization and Project):

A user needs the organization-level role to see the organization Auditing page, and the project-level role to see a Project's Auditing page. Assign them the same way as any other role from the Users, Roles & Groups page.

#Search

Every audit view has a search field above the event list. Type any text to keep only the events that contain it, in any of their fields: a user name, a resource name, an action, or a value recorded in the event payload. The search combines with the filters below, so you can narrow to a service and a time window first, then search within the result.

#Filters

#Services (project level)

At the Project level, events can be filtered by service:

• Connectors
• Lakehouse Manager
• Data Processing Engine
• Analytics Manager
• Identity Access Manager

#Resources

Once a service is selected, the resource filter exposes the resource types available for that service. The full list of audited resource types is:

#Time window

Every audit view lets you scope events to a specific time window. You can pick one of the preset ranges or define your own:

• Today
• Yesterday
• Last 1 hour
• Last 6 hours
• Last 24 hours
• Last 7 days
• Last 30 days
• Custom: pick exact From and To dates and times on the calendar, with a selectable timezone.

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