Audit Event Index

Availability

Account Type	Account Level
Cloud Flex	Trial, Enterprise
Credits	Trial, Enterprise Operations, Enterprise Security, Enterprise Suite

The Audit Event Index contains event logs in JSON format on account activities, allowing you to monitor and audit changes. This index contains user action events, which are events that were triggered by a user action, either from the UI or an API. Enterprise accounts have the Audit Event Index enabled and available to search by default. You can use the Enterprise Audit Apps to visually display data from the Audit Event Index for monitoring and analysis.

This index is separate from the System Event Index, which shows events triggered by Sumo Logic rather than user action events.

This index is improved and different from the Audit Index, and there is some overlap of audited events. The Audit Index provides event logs in plain text and audits when account limits are reached and operation failures, like throttling and scheduled search events.

Documentation 

All available audited events are documented for your reference. See Documentation for Audit Log Definitions.

Search the Audit Event Index

Searching the Audit Event Index is the same as running a normal search against your ingested data. You specify the _index metadata field with sumologic_audit_events.

For example, to search for audit events:

1. In the Search page, enter the following: _index=sumologic_audit_events  
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   Make sure to enter the query exactly as shown. Changing any part of the query renders it ineffective.

2. Choose the time range for the incidents that you'd like to review.
3. Click Start to run the search.

Audited events

This Audit Event Index has detailed JSON logs for the following features. To search for audit events for a specific feature use the metadata field _sourceCategory with its corresponding value. For example, to search user action events for access keys you would use the query:

_index=sumologic_audit_events _sourceCategory=accessKeys

Product Feature	_sourceCategory Value
Access Keys	accessKeys
Alerts	alerts
Automation Service and Cloud SOAR	oar*
Cloud SIEM	cse*
Collection	collection
Connections	connections
Content Sharing	content
Data Forwarding	dataForwarding
Field Extractions	fieldExtractionRules
Fields	fieldManagement
Ingest Budgets	ingestBudgets
Installation Tokens	token
Logs-to-Metrics Rules	metricExtractionRule
Monitors	monitorLibrary
Password Policy	passwordPolicy
Roles	roles
SAML	saml
Scheduled Views	scheduledView
Security Policies: Share Dashboards Outside of the Organization, Data Access Level for Shared Dashboards, Per User Concurrent Sessions Limit, and User Session Timeout	orgSettings
Security Policy: Support Account Access	supportAccount
Service Allowlist	serviceAllowlist
Support Account	supportAccount
Transformation Rules	transformationRules
Users	users
User Sessions	userSessions
2-Step Verification	multiFactorAuthentication

When performing create, update, and delete requests through Sumo Logic APIs, you can find the API accessID within the operator field of your related Audit Event Index messages.

Metadata assignment

Metadata fields are assigned to audit event logs as follows:

Metadata Field	Assignment Description
_sourceCategory	Value of the common parameter, subsystem.
_sourceName	Value of the common parameter, eventName.
_sourceHost	The remote IP address of the host that made the request. If not available the value will be no_sourceHost.

Common parameters

Each audit event log has common keys that categorize it to a product area and provide details of the event.

Parameter	Description	Data Type
accountId	The unique identifier of the organization.	String
eventId	The unique identifier of the event.	String
eventName	The name of the event.	String
eventTime	The event timestamp in ISO 8601 format.	String
eventFormatVersion	The event log format version.	String
operator	Information of who did the operation. If its missing, the Sumo service was the operator.	JSON object of Strings
subsystem	The product area of the event.	String

{
    "content": {
        "type": "search",
        "name": "this search should be packaged NHAXoOdq80o1ZKZ",
        "description": "savedSearch"
    },
    "operator": {
        "email": "searchservice_test@demo.com",
        "id": "0000000002F2438D",
        "interface": "UI",
        "sessionId": "go42n37za657ck0i3t4368",
        "sourceIp": "50.18.133.252",
        "type": "UserContext"
    },
    "contentIdentity": {
        "type": "search",
        "contentId": "0000000009B2636B",
        "externalId": "000000000BFB73FE",
        "name": "this search should be packaged NHAXoOdq80o1ZKZ"
    },
    "adminMode": false,
    "accountId": "0000000000000131",
    "eventId": "0234cc63-333c-4585-a78f-08517e5f9fd7",
    "eventName": "ContentCreated",
    "eventTime": "2018-12-11T21:37:33.950Z",
    "eventFormatVersion": "1.0 beta",
    "subsystem": "content"
}

Index retention period

By default, the retention period of the Audit Event index is the same as the retention period of your Default Partition. You can change the retention period by editing the relevant partition, sumologic_audit_events. For more information, see Edit a Partition.