Monitor application events

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Get insights into events throughout your Aspera on Cloud application, including user creation or deletion; file activity, folder sharing events, and more. Also filter for admin-specific events like security setting changes.

Events available for monitoring

You can monitor these events:
  • Admin events (see "Admin Events", below, for details)
  • Log in, log out
  • Workspace created/deleted
  • Workspace membership created/deleted
  • User created/deleted
  • Package sent/received/downloaded
  • File uploaded/downloaded/moved/renamed/deleted
  • Folder shared, folder shared via a public link, folder copied/ renamed/, folder deleted
  • User left the shared folder

Admin-specific events

When you select Admin events for the event type, the Activity app returns a list of all events that occur in the Admin app of Aspera on Cloud, such as when an admin user:
  • Gives another user admin privileges.
  • Edits a security setting in a workspace or app.
  • Enables or disables one of the available apps.
Field name Description Example
Event Description of the event. For example, an admin added a user or updated a configuration in the UI. Updated "inherit email notification settings"
Previous event value Previous value of the field for the UI element. true
Current event value Current value of the field for the UI element. false
Application AoC application where the event occurred. Admin
Event location The menu navigation to the page where the event occurred ("click this, then click this"). Workspace > Shared inbox
Initiated by Name of the user who initiated the event Jill Lee <jlee@ln.ibm.com>
Workspace Workspace where the event occurred Marketing
Date Date of the event Jul 27, 2020, 1:51:05 AM
For any field which is not applicable to an event, Activity will return "--" for the field. For example, an event that creates a new organization ID will not have a value for Previous event value.

Filtering events data

In the first field, select the desired event type, whether All events, or a specific event, such as Log in.

In the second field, select a time range, either a preset option or a custom option (note that all times are in UTC):
  • For a preset option, select the range of time past—from a minimum of 15 minutes to a maximum of one month.
  • To select a custom time range, click Custom and enter the start date and stop date. The start date can be as far back as you wish. The stop date is a maximum of 6 months after the start date you enter.
To further refine your results, enter a username or workspace name in the Filter search box.
A table with your search results appears.
Category Description
Events Event, such as "Created User" or "Received Package"
User Username of the user initiating the event
Workspace Name of the workspace for the user
Date Date the event occurred

The term Trusted source in a column refers to a transfer client or some other source that is not a workspace or a human user.

The term Public link in a column means that the file access occurred through a public link sent to user. Since the link is public, the user identify can't be determined.