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Groups Enterprise log events

See Admin console actions on groups and group memberships

Depending on your Google Workspace edition, you might have access to the security investigation tool, which has more advanced features. For example, super admins can identify, triage, and take action on security and privacy issues. Learn more

As your organization's administrator, you can run searches and take action on security issues related to Groups Enterprise log events. There you can view a record of actions performed on groups (including target audiences) and group memberships. These actions are performed within the Google Admin console, the Google Cloud console, the Admin SDK API, the Cloud Identity API, and within the Google Groups user interface. For example, you can see when an administrator added a user or when a group owner deleted their group.

Dynamic log events are available in the Groups Enterprise log events. When membership in dynamic groups changes, the log event indicates that Google System took the action.

Note: To view changes to groups, group memberships, and group messages that are performed within the Google Groups interface, go to Groups log events.

Forward log event data to Google Cloud

You can opt in to share log event data with Google Cloud. If you turn on sharing, data is forwarded to Cloud Logging where you can query and view your logs and control how you route and store your logs.

The type of log event data you can share with Google Cloud depends on your Google Workspace, Cloud Identity, or Essentials account.

Run a search for log events

Your ability to run a search depends on your Google edition, your administrative privileges, and the data source. You can run a search on all users, regardless of their Google Workspace edition.

Audit and investigation tool

To run a search for log events, first choose a data source. Then, choose one or more filters for your search.

In the Google Admin console, go to Menu Reporting Audit and investigation Groups Enterprise log events.
Requires having the Audit & Investigation administrator privilege.
To filter events that occurred before or after a specific date, for Date, select Before or After. By default, events from the last 7 days are shown. You can select a different date range or click to remove the date filter.
Click Add a filter select an attribute. For example, to filter by a specific event type, select Event.
Select an operator select a value click Apply.
- (Optional) To create multiple filters for your search, repeat this step.
- (Optional) To add a search operator, above Add a filter, select AND or OR.
Click Search.Note: Using the Filter tab, you can include simple parameter and value pairs to filter the search results. You can also use the Condition builder tab, where the filters are represented as conditions with AND/OR operators.

Security investigation tool

Supported editions for this feature: Frontline Standard and Frontline Plus; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus; Education Standard and Education Plus; Enterprise Essentials Plus; Cloud Identity Premium. Compare your edition

To run a search in the security investigation tool, first choose a data source. Then, choose one or more conditions for your search. For each condition, choose an attribute, an operator, and a value.

In the Google Admin console, go to Menu Security Security center Investigation tool.
Requires having the Security center administrator privilege.
Click Data source and select Groups Enterprise log events.
To filter events that occurred before or after a specific date, for Date, select Before or After. By default, events from the last 7 days are shown. You can select a different date range or click to remove the date filter.
Click Add Condition.
Tip: You can include one or more conditions in your search or customize your search with nested queries. For details, go to Customize your search with nested queries.
Click Attribute select an option. For example, to filter by a specific event type, select Event.
For a complete list of attributes, go to the Attribute descriptions section.
Select an operator.
Enter a value or select a value from the list.
(Optional) To add more search conditions, repeat the steps.
Click Search.
You can review the search results from the investigation tool in a table at the bottom of the page.
(Optional) To save your investigation, click Save enter a title and description click Save.

Notes

In the Condition builder tab, filters are represented as conditions with AND/OR operators. You can also use the Filter tab to include simple parameter and value pairs to filter the search results.
If you give a user a new name, you will not see query results with the user's old name. For example, if you rename OldName@example.com to NewName@example.com, you will not see results for events related to OldName@example.com.
You can only search for data in messages that have not yet been deleted from Trash.

Attribute descriptions

For this data source, you can use the following attributes when searching log event data.

Attribute	Description
Actor	Email address of the user who performed the action
Actor application name You need to add this column to the search results. For the steps, go to Manage search results column data.	Details about the application used to perform the action. To review the following information, click the name in the search results: Actor application name—Name of the application used to perform the action (populated for third-party apps and for some first-party apps, such as Gmail) Actor OAuth client ID—Identifier for the third-party app used to perform the action Impersonation—Whether the app was impersonating a user If you export the information to a comma-separated values (CSV) file or Google Sheets, the information is saved as a single block of text within a cell.
Actor group name	The group name of the actor. For more information, go to Filtering results by Google Group. To add a group to your filtering groups allowlist: Select Actor group name. Click Filtering groups. The Filtering groups page appears. Click Add Groups. Search for a group by entering the first few characters of its name or email address. When you see the group you want, select it. (Optional) To add another group, search for and select the group. When you finish selecting groups, click Add. (Optional) To remove a group, click Remove group . Click Save.
Actor organizational unit	Organizational unit of the actor
Date	Date and time of the event (displayed in your browser's default time zone)
Dynamic group query	Query used to construct this dynamic group
Event	The logged event action, such as Create Group, Invite Member, or Reject Join Request
Group identifier	Email ID of the group
Group info setting	Value of an update to the group info setting
Group namespace	Namespace was created
IP ASN You need to add this column to the search results. For the steps, go to Manage search results column data.	IP Autonomous System Number (ASN), subdivision, and region associated with the log entry. To review the IP ASN and subdivision and region code where the activity happened, click the name in the search results.
Member identifier	Email address of the member
Member type	Type of the member, such as user, group, service account, or other
Membership expiration time	Expiration time for a group membership
New value	New value of a group setting, if it changed
Old value	Old value of a group setting, if it changed
Resources	List of resources associated with the action. Click a resource to view the following details: Resource ID—The resource identifier Resource title—Title of the resource Resource type—Google Drive item, email, alert, rule, and so on Resource relation—Relationship of the resource to the event Resource label—List of classification labels for a resource, including Resource label ID, Resource label title, and Resource label field. The Resource label field contains the: Label field ID Label field name Label field type—The data type of the label field, such as: Text Number Selection—Included: ID, Display name, Is badged Selection list User—Included: Email User list Date If you export the information to a comma-separated values (CSV) file or Google Sheets, the information is saved as a single block of text within a cell.
Value	Value of a group setting

Note: If you gave a user a new name, you will not see query results with the user's old name. For example, if you rename OldName@example.com to_NewName@example.com_, you will not see results for events related to_OldName@example.com_.

Manage log event data

Manage search results column data

Export search result data

You can export search results to Sheets or to a CSV file.

At the top of the search results table, click Export all.
Enter a name click Export.
The export displays below the search results table under Export action results.
To view the data, click the name of your export.
The export opens in Sheets.

Export limits vary:

The total results of the export are limited to 100,000 rows.
Supported editions for this feature: Frontline Standard and Frontline Plus; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus; Education Standard and Education Plus; Enterprise Essentials Plus; Cloud Identity Premium. Compare your edition
If you have the security investigation tool, the total results of the export are limited to 30 million rows.

For more information, go to Export search results.

When and how long is data available?

Take action based on search results

Create activity rules & set up alerts

You can set up alerts based on log event data using reporting rules. For instructions, go to Create and manage reporting rules.
Supported editions for this feature: Frontline Standard and Frontline Plus; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus; Education Standard and Education Plus; Enterprise Essentials Plus; Cloud Identity Premium. Compare your edition
To help prevent, detect, and remediate security issues efficiently, you can automate actions in the security investigation tool and set up alerts by creating activity rules. To set up a rule, set up conditions for the rule, and then specify the actions to perform when the conditions are met. For more details, go to Create and manage activity rules.

Take action based on search results

After you run a search in the security investigation tool, you can act on your search results. For example, you can run a search based on Gmail log events, and then use the tool to delete specific messages, send messages to quarantine, or send messages to users' inboxes. For more details, go to Take action based on search results.

Manage your investigations

View your list of investigations

To view a list of the investigations that you own and that were shared with you, click View investigations . The investigation list includes the names, descriptions, and owners of the investigations, and the date last modified.

From this list, you can take action on any investigations that you own, for example, to delete an investigation. Check the box for an investigation and then click Actions.

Note: You can view your saved investigations under Quick access, directly above your list of investigations.

Configure settings for your investigations

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Last updated 2026-04-09 UTC.