Audit Events API

Instance Audit Events (PREMIUM ONLY)

The Audit Events API allows you to retrieve instance audit events.

To retrieve audit events using the API, you must authenticate yourself as an Administrator.

Retrieve all instance audit events

GET /audit_events

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
created_after	string	no	Return audit events created on or after the given time. Format: ISO 8601 YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ
created_before	string	no	Return audit events created on or before the given time. Format: ISO 8601 YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ
entity_type	string	no	Return audit events for the given entity type. Valid values are: User, Group, or Project.
entity_id	integer	no	Return audit events for the given entity ID. Requires entity_type attribute to be present.

By default, GET requests return 20 results at a time because the API results are paginated.

Read more on pagination.

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" https://primary.example.com/api/v4/audit_events

Example response:

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "author_id": 1,
    "entity_id": 6,
    "entity_type": "Project",
    "details": {
      "custom_message": "Project archived",
      "author_name": "Administrator",
      "target_id": "flightjs/flight",
      "target_type": "Project",
      "target_details": "flightjs/flight",
      "ip_address": "127.0.0.1",
      "entity_path": "flightjs/flight"
    },
    "created_at": "2019-08-30T07:00:41.885Z"
  },
  {
    "id": 2,
    "author_id": 1,
    "entity_id": 60,
    "entity_type": "Group",
    "details": {
      "add": "group",
      "author_name": "Administrator",
      "target_id": "flightjs",
      "target_type": "Group",
      "target_details": "flightjs",
      "ip_address": "127.0.0.1",
      "entity_path": "flightjs"
    },
    "created_at": "2019-08-27T18:36:44.162Z"
  },
  {
    "id": 3,
    "author_id": 51,
    "entity_id": 51,
    "entity_type": "User",
    "details": {
      "change": "email address",
      "from": "hello@flightjs.com",
      "to": "maintainer@flightjs.com",
      "author_name": "Andreas",
      "target_id": 51,
      "target_type": "User",
      "target_details": "Andreas",
      "ip_address": null,
      "entity_path": "Andreas"
    },
    "created_at": "2019-08-22T16:34:25.639Z"
  }
]

Retrieve single instance audit event

GET /audit_events/:id

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" https://primary.example.com/api/v4/audit_events/1

Example response:

{
  "id": 1,
  "author_id": 1,
  "entity_id": 6,
  "entity_type": "Project",
  "details": {
    "custom_message": "Project archived",
    "author_name": "Administrator",
    "target_id": "flightjs/flight",
    "target_type": "Project",
    "target_details": "flightjs/flight",
    "ip_address": "127.0.0.1",
    "entity_path": "flightjs/flight"
  },
  "created_at": "2019-08-30T07:00:41.885Z"
}

Group Audit Events (STARTER)

Introduced in GitLab 12.5.

The Group Audit Events API allows you to retrieve group audit events.

To retrieve group audit events using the API, you must authenticate yourself as an Administrator or an owner of the group.

Retrieve all group audit events

GET /groups/:id/audit_events

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
id	integer/string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the group
created_after	string	no	Return group audit events created on or after the given time. Format: ISO 8601 YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ
created_before	string	no	Return group audit events created on or before the given time. Format: ISO 8601 YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ

By default, GET requests return 20 results at a time because the API results are paginated.

Read more on pagination.

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" https://primary.example.com/api/v4/groups/60/audit_events

Example response:

[
  {
    "id": 2,
    "author_id": 1,
    "entity_id": 60,
    "entity_type": "Group",
    "details": {
      "custom_message": "Group marked for deletion",
      "author_name": "Administrator",
      "target_id": "flightjs",
      "target_type": "Group",
      "target_details": "flightjs",
      "ip_address": "127.0.0.1",
      "entity_path": "flightjs"
    },
    "created_at": "2019-08-28T19:36:44.162Z"
  },
  {
    "id": 1,
    "author_id": 1,
    "entity_id": 60,
    "entity_type": "Group",
    "details": {
      "add": "group",
      "author_name": "Administrator",
      "target_id": "flightjs",
      "target_type": "Group",
      "target_details": "flightjs",
      "ip_address": "127.0.0.1",
      "entity_path": "flightjs"
    },
    "created_at": "2019-08-27T18:36:44.162Z"
  }
]

Retrieve a specific group audit event

Only available to group owners and administrators.

GET /groups/:id/audit_events/:audit_event_id

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
id	integer/string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the group
audit_event_id	integer	yes	ID of the audit event

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" https://primary.example.com/api/v4/groups/60/audit_events/2

Example response:

{
  "id": 2,
  "author_id": 1,
  "entity_id": 60,
  "entity_type": "Group",
  "details": {
    "custom_message": "Group marked for deletion",
    "author_name": "Administrator",
    "target_id": "flightjs",
    "target_type": "Group",
    "target_details": "flightjs",
    "ip_address": "127.0.0.1",
    "entity_path": "flightjs"
  },
  "created_at": "2019-08-28T19:36:44.162Z"
}