Audit Events API

Introduced in GitLab 12.4.

Instance Audit Events

The Audit Events API allows you to retrieve instance audit events. This API cannot retrieve group or project 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
Attribute Type Required Description
id integer yes The ID of the audit event 
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

Version history

The Group Audit Events API allows you to retrieve group audit events. This API cannot retrieve project audit events.

A user with:

  • The Owner role can retrieve group audit events of all users.
  • The Developer or Maintainer role is limited to group audit events based on their individual actions.

This endpoint supports both offset-based and keyset-based pagination. Keyset-based pagination is recommended when requesting consecutive pages of results.

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 The 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"
}

Project Audit Events

Introduced in GitLab 13.1.

The Project Audit Events API allows you to retrieve project audit events.

A user with a Maintainer role (or above) can retrieve project audit events of all users. A user with a Developer role is limited to project audit events based on their individual actions.

Retrieve all project audit events 

GET /projects/:id/audit_events
Attribute Type Required Description
id integer/string yes The ID or URL-encoded path of the project
created_after string no Return project audit events created on or after the given time. Format: ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ)
created_before string no Return project 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/projects/7/audit_events"

Example response: 

[
  {
    "id": 5,
    "author_id": 1,
    "entity_id": 7,
    "entity_type": "Project",
    "details": {
        "change": "prevent merge request approval from committers",
        "from": "",
        "to": "true",
        "author_name": "Administrator",
        "target_id": 7,
        "target_type": "Project",
        "target_details": "twitter/typeahead-js",
        "ip_address": "127.0.0.1",
        "entity_path": "twitter/typeahead-js"
    },
    "created_at": "2020-05-26T22:55:04.230Z"
  },
  {
      "id": 4,
      "author_id": 1,
      "entity_id": 7,
      "entity_type": "Project",
      "details": {
          "change": "prevent merge request approval from authors",
          "from": "false",
          "to": "true",
          "author_name": "Administrator",
          "target_id": 7,
          "target_type": "Project",
          "target_details": "twitter/typeahead-js",
          "ip_address": "127.0.0.1",
          "entity_path": "twitter/typeahead-js"
      },
      "created_at": "2020-05-26T22:55:04.218Z"
  }
]

Retrieve a specific project audit event

Only available to users with at least the Maintainer role for the project. 

GET /projects/:id/audit_events/:audit_event_id
Attribute Type Required Description
id integer/string yes The ID or URL-encoded path of the project
audit_event_id integer yes The ID of the audit event 
curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://primary.example.com/api/v4/projects/7/audit_events/5"

Example response: 

{
  "id": 5,
  "author_id": 1,
  "entity_id": 7,
  "entity_type": "Project",
  "details": {
      "change": "prevent merge request approval from committers",
      "from": "",
      "to": "true",
      "author_name": "Administrator",
      "target_id": 7,
      "target_type": "Project",
      "target_details": "twitter/typeahead-js",
      "ip_address": "127.0.0.1",
      "entity_path": "twitter/typeahead-js"
  },
  "created_at": "2020-05-26T22:55:04.230Z"
}