The audit log allows organization admins to quickly review the actions performed by members of your organization. It includes details such as who performed the action, what the action was, and when it was performed.
In this article
Accessing the audit log
The audit log lists actions performed within the last 90 days. Only members of the Owners team can access an organization's audit log.
In the top right corner of any page, click your username.
On the left side of your profile page, under "Organizations", click the icon for your organization.
On the right side of the organization profile page, click Audit log.
Searching the audit log
The audit log lists the following information about actions made within your organization:
- Which repository an action was performed in
- The user that performed the action
- The action that was performed
- Which country the action took place in
- The date and time the action occurred
Note that you cannot search for audit entries using text. You can, however, construct search queries using a variety of filters. Many operators used when querying the audit log—such as -
, >
, or <
—match the same format as searching across GitHub Enterprise.
Search based on repository
Use the repo
qualifier to limit actions to a specific repository owned by your organization. For example:
-
repo:my-org/our-repo
finds all events that occurred for theour-repo
repository in themy-org
organization. -
repo:my-org/our-repo repo:my-org/another-repo
finds all events that occurred for both theour-repo
andanother-repo
repositories in themy-org
organization. -
-repo:my-org/not-this-repo
excludes all events that occurred for thenot-this-repo
repository in themy-org
organization.
Note that you must include your organization's name within the repo
qualifier; searching for just repo:our-repo
will not work.
Search based on the user
The actor
qualifier can scope events based on the member of your organization that performed the action. For example:
-
actor:octocat
finds all events performed byoctocat
. -
actor:octocat actor:hubot
finds all events performed by bothoctocat
andhubot
. -
-actor:hubot
excludes all events performed byhubot
.
Note that you can only use a GitHub Enterprise username, not an individual's real name.
Search based on the action performed
To search for specific events, use the action
qualifier in your query. Actions listed in the audit log are grouped within the following categories:
Category Name | Description |
---|---|
account |
Contains all activities related to your organization account. |
billing |
Contains all activities related to your organization's billing. |
hook |
Contains all activities related to webhooks. |
org |
Contains all activities related organization membership |
payment_method |
Contains all activities related to how your organization pays for GitHub. |
repo |
Contains all activities related to the repositories owned by your organization. |
team |
Contains all activities related to teams in your organization. |
You can search for specific sets of actions using these terms. For example:
-
action:team
finds all events grouped within the team category. -
-action:billing
excludes all events in the billing category.
Each category has a set of associated events that you can filter on. For example:
-
action:team.create
finds all events where a team was created. -
-action:billing.change_email
excludes all events where the billing email was changed.
This list describes the available categories and associated events:
hook
category
The Action | Description |
---|---|
create |
Triggered when a new hook was added to a repository owned by your organization. |
config_changed |
Triggered when an existing hook has its configuration altered. |
destroy |
Triggered when an existing hook was removed from a repository. |
events_changed |
Triggered when the events on a hook have been altered. |
org
category
The Action | Description |
---|---|
cancel_invitation |
Triggered when an organization invitation has been revoked. |
invite_member |
Triggered when a new user was invited to join your organization. |
oauth_application
category
The Action | Description |
---|---|
create |
Triggered when a new OAuth application is created. |
destroy |
Triggered when an existing OAuth application is deleted. |
reset_secret |
Triggered when an OAuth application's client secret of is reset. |
revoke_tokens |
Triggered when an OAuth application's user tokens are revoked. |
transfer |
Triggered when an existing OAuth application is transferred to a new organization. |
repo
category
The Action | Description |
---|---|
access |
Triggered when a repository owned by an organization is switched from "private" to "public" (or vice versa). |
add_member |
Triggered when a user is given collaboration access to a repository. |
create |
Triggered when a new repository is created. |
destroy |
Triggered when a repository is deleted. |
enable |
Triggered when a repository is reenabled. |
remove_member |
Triggered when a user is removed from a repository as a collaborator. |
rename |
Triggered when a repository is renamed. |
transfer |
Triggered when a repository is transferred. |
transfer_start |
Triggered when a repository transfer is about to occur. |
team
category
The Action | Description |
---|---|
add_member |
Triggered when a member of an organization is added to a team. |
add_repository |
Triggered when a team is given control of a repository. |
create |
Triggered when a new team is created. |
destroy |
Triggered when a team is deleted from the organization. |
remove_member |
Triggered when a member of an organization is removed from a team. |
remove_repository |
Triggered when a repository is no longer under a team's control. |
Search based on time of action
Use the created
qualifier to filter actions in the audit log based on when they occurred. Date formatting must follow the ISO8601 standard, which is YYYY-MM-DD
--that's year-month-day.
You may also add some optional time information, formatted as THH:MM:SS+07:00
--that's hour-minutes-seconds (HH:MM:SS
), followed by a UTC offset (+07:00
)
Dates support greater than, less than, and range qualifiers. For example:
-
created:2014-07-08
finds all events that occurred on July 8th, 2014. -
created:>=2014-07-08
finds all events that occurred on or after July 8th, 2014. -
created:<=2014-07-08
finds all events that occurred on or before July 8th, 2014. -
created:2014-07-01..2014-07-31
finds all events that occurred in the month of July 2014.
The audit log contains data for the past 90 days, but you can use the created
qualifier to search for events earlier than that.
Search based on location
Using the qualifier country
, you can filter actions in the audit log based on the originating country. You can use a country's two-letter short code or its full name. Keep in mind that countries with spaces in their name will need to be wrapped in quotation marks. For example:
-
country:de
finds all events that occurred in Germany. -
country:Mexico
finds all events that occurred in Mexico. -
country:"United States"
all finds events that occurred in the United States.