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Using the Audit Trail

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The Audit Trail provides a chronological log of configuration changes made to your account, whether by administrators or an API. The log contains entries for additions, deletions, and edits of items such as rules, configuration settings, and more.

Audit Trail events are available as standalone content or together with Cato events.

  • Access detailed Audit Trail events from:

    • The dedicated Audit Trail page in the CMA

    • The dedicated Audit Trail API, auditFeed

  • Get contextual clarity by viewing configuration changes in a single stream together with network events, security events, and CMA admin logins. Summarised Audit Trail events are a subtype (Event Type = System and Sub-type = Audit) of events and are available however you consume those:

Showing the Audit Trail Page

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In the Audit Trail page, you can see information about actions taken by administrators during a specific time period. You can use the search bar to filter the Audit Trail by modules, types, administrators, and actions.

For some policies, such as the Internet Firewall and WAN Firewall, you can view the value of a field before and after it was changed.

Note: Sometimes policy changes may take several minutes until the change is recorded in the Audit Trail, but this doesn't necessarily reflect an actual propagation delay.

To show the Audit Trail for CMA admins:

  • From the navigation menu, click Account > Audit Trail.

Filtering and Sorting the Audit Trail

You can filter the Audit Trail page by using the time range filter, selecting a Custom Preset filter, manually creating a filter, or using a natural language search. The Audit Trail page supports showing data for the previous 12 months, and you can view up to 3 months of items at one time. The Audit Trail is not part of Cato's Data Lake. 

For more information, see the following articles: