Google Workspace Updates: Get more insight into how Chat apps are used within your organization (original) (raw)
October 6, 2025
What’s changing
Google Workspace admins can now get better insights into how Chat apps are being used within their organization via enhanced logging and display of log information. Specifically, we are enhancing Chat event logs to add Chat app related events. Using these logs, admins can gain insights such as:
- Which Chat apps have been added to what Spaces
- What apps have been added in a specific space
- What apps have been removed, and who removed them
- What are the most popular chat apps within your organization
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An example of a data visualization on Chap app usage created via Looker based on BigQuery export data
Getting started
- Admins:
- Logs will be collected by default. Admins can see the logging information:
- Via BigQuery log export and subsequent queries / data visualizations
- Via the Reports API
- Coming soon, the logs will also be available in the Security Investigation Tool (SIT)
- Use our Help Center to learn more about allowing users to install Chat apps, or using Chat log events.
- Logs will be collected by default. Admins can see the logging information:
- End users:
- No end user impact.
Rollout pace
- This feature is available now.
Availability
Audit logs are available via:
- The Reports API to all Google Workspace customers \
- BigQuery to Frontline Standard and Frontline Plus; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus; Education Standard and Education Plus; Enterprise Essentials Plus.
- (Coming soon) The Security Investigation Tool (SIT) to Frontline Standard and Frontline Plus; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus; Education Standard and Education Plus; Enterprise Essentials Plus; Cloud Identity Premium.