Downloading Audit Logs

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You can download the audit log reports to examine the data of auditable events.

To download audit logs

  1. Expand the menu options icon Menu options, in the title bar, and select Analytics.
    The dashboard displays the webMethods API Gateway-wide analytics based on the metrics monitored.
  2. Select Audit logs.
  3. In the drop-down list, choose the time interval in which you want to view the data of auditable events.
  4. If you select Custom, type the From Date and To Date to specify the time interval that best suits your needs.
  5. Click Download to download and view the detailed report.
    webMethods API Gateway generates a compressed file of the audit logs and downloads it to the default download folder configured in your browser..

    The compressed file is named auditlogs_N.zip. The compressed file contains one or more simple text files, where each text file contains 10,000 audit log records.

    webMethods API Gateway audit log are listed below.

    Column Detail
    id Unique identifier of the event that produced the audit record.
    eventType Type of event (audit log) that produced the record.
    creationDate Date and time the event entry was written to the log.
    event_create_ts Time in milliseconds when the event was generated in webMethods API Gateway.
    objectType Type of object (for example, User, API, Application, and so on) on which the event occurred.
    action Type of action (for example, Create, Update, Delete, and so on) that was performed on the object.
    object Unique identifier of the webMethods API Gateway object on which the action was performed.
    message Message that describes the event that occurred.
    user Name of a user on the webMethods API Gateway instance that triggered the event.
    sourceMachine The host name of the machine on which the webMethods API Gateway instance is running.
    clientIPAddress IP address of the machine on which the webMethods API Gateway instance is running.
    payload The request payload defined for the event.
    status Current status of the event (Success or Failure).