Title: Audit Log
Author: WordPress VIP Documentation
Published: October 14, 2021
Last modified: March 12, 2026

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 1. [Logs](https://docs.wpvip.com/logs/)
 2. Audit Log

#  Audit Log

The Audit Log panel in [the VIP Dashboard](https://dashboard.wpvip.com/) provides
visibility into what is happening in an organization or an application. An audit
trail of all management actions on the platform allows compliance with internal 
and external regulatory standards, and provides insight for debugging, security,
and incident investigation. 

Audit Logs are immutable and the reported data is retained for the lifetime of each
customer.

## Access the application view

All management actions that occur specific to that application are reported in the
application’s Audit Log.

**Prerequisite**

To access the Application view of the Audit Log panel, a user must have at minimum
an [Org member role](https://docs.wpvip.com/manage-user-access/vip-dashboard/org-roles)
or an [App admin role](https://docs.wpvip.com/app-role/) for that application.

To access the application view of the **Audit Logs** panel:

 1. Navigate to [the VIP Dashboard for an application](https://docs.wpvip.com/vip-dashboard/application-view/).
 2. Select an environment from the environment dropdown located at the upper left of
    the VIP Dashboard.
 3. Select “**Logs**” from the sidebar navigation at the left of the screen.
 4. Select **“Audit”** from the submenu.

![](https://docs.wpvip.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Application-Audit-
Log.png?w=1024)

Example screenshot of the application view of the Audit Log panel

## Access the organization view

All management actions that occur on all applications belonging to the organization
are reported in the organization’s Audit Log.

#### Prerequisite

To access the Organization view of the Audit Log panel, a user must have at minimum
an [Org member role](https://docs.wpvip.com/manage-user-access/vip-dashboard/org-roles).

To access the organization view of the **Audit Logs** panel:

 1. Navigate to [the VIP Dashboard for an organization](https://docs.wpvip.com/vip-dashboard/organization-view/).
 2. Select “**Audit** **Log**” from the sidebar navigation at the left of the screen.

![](https://docs.wpvip.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/organization-Audit-
Log.png?w=1024)

Example screenshot of the organization view of the Audit Log panel

## Structure of logged events

All recorded events display the following information:

| **Date & Time** | **When the event happened.** Dates & times are shown in the local timezone of the person who is viewing the audit log screen. Hover over the time to see time in UTC. | _Example: _
12:20pm | 
| **Actor** | **The user who performed the event.** This will be a user within the organization, a [VIP Support user](https://docs.wpvip.com/restricting-site-access/site-access-for-vip-support/) (denoted by a “(VIP)” after their name), or an automation bot (Platform Bot). | _Example: _John Newton | 
| **Description** | **A sentence describing the event.** | _Example: _Added domain mytestdomain.com | 
| **Target** | **What was affected by the event.** An environment, a user, or the organization. | _Example: _example-app.production |

Additional relevant contextual information may be shown for some events.

## Event permalinks

Each logged event has a unique and shareable permalink URL linked in the event’s
timestamp. When the event’s permalink is selected, the Audit Log is filtered to 
display that event at the top of the list, and all prior events listed below it.

![](https://docs.wpvip.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Event-Permalink-Audit-
Log.png?w=1024)

Example screenshot of an event’s permalink view in the Audit Log panel

Last updated: March 12, 2026