Audit Logs

The audit log shows various changes in a Zendesk account since the account was created. Records of these changes are saved indefinitely and you can view the entire change history. For more information, see Viewing the audit log for changes in Zendesk help.

The Audit Logs endpoints are only available on the Enterprise plan.

JSON format

Audit Logs are represented as JSON objects with the following properties:

Name	Type	Read-only	Mandatory	Description
action	string	true	false	Type of change made. Possible values are "create", "destroy", "exported", "login", and "update"
action_label	string	true	false	Localized string of action field
actor_id	integer	true	false	id of the user or system that initiated the change
actor_name	string	true	false	Name of the user or system that initiated the change
change_description	string	true	false	The description of the change that occurred
created_at	string	true	false	The time the audit got created
id	integer	true	false	The id automatically assigned upon creation
ip_address	string	true	false	The IP address of the user doing the audit
source_id	integer	true	false	The id of the item being audited
source_label	string	true	false	The name of the item being audited
source_type	string	true	false	Item type being audited. Typically describes the system where the change was initiated. Possible values vary based on your account's Zendesk products and activity. Common values include "apitoken", "rule", "ticket", "user", and "zendesk/app_market/app". The "rule" value is used for automations, macros, triggers, views, and other automated business rules
url	string	true	false	The URL to access the audit log

Example

{
  "action": "update",
  "action_label": "Updated",
  "actor_id": 1234,
  "actor_name": "Sameer Patel",
  "change_description": "Role changed from Administrator to End User",
  "created_at": "2012-03-05T11:32:44Z",
  "id": 498483,
  "ip_address": "209.119.38.228",
  "source_id": 3456,
  "source_label": "John Doe",
  "source_type": "user",
  "url": "https://company.zendesk.com/api/v2/audit_logs/498483.json"
}

List Audit Logs

• GET /api/v2/audit_logs

Allowed For

• Admins on accounts that have audit log access

Pagination

• Cursor pagination (recommended)
• Offset pagination

See Pagination.

Returns a maximum of 100 records per page.

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Required	Description
filter[action]	string	Query	false	Filter audit logs by the action
filter[actor_id]	integer	Query	false	Filter audit logs by the actor id
filter[created_at]	string	Query	false	Filter audit logs by the time of creation. When used, you must specify filter[created_at] twice in your request, first with the start time and again with an end time
filter[ip_address]	string	Query	false	Filter audit logs by the ip address
filter[source_id]	integer	Query	false	Filter audit logs by the source id. Requires filter[source_type] to also be set
filter[source_type]	string	Query	false	Filter audit logs by the source type. For example, user or rule
sort	string	Query	false	Cursor pagination only. Sort audit logs. Default is sort=-created_at
sort_by	string	Query	false	Offset pagination only. Sort audit logs. Default is sort_by=created_at
sort_order	string	Query	false	Offset pagination only. Sort audit logs. Default is sort_order=desc

Code Samples

curl

curl -g 'https://helpdesk.zendesk.com/api/v2/audit_logs.json?filter[source_type]=user&filter[source_id]=123' \
  -v -u {email_address}:{password}

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/audit_logs?filter[action]=&filter[actor_id]=&filter[created_at]=&filter[ip_address]=&filter[source_id]=&filter[source_type]=&sort=&sort_by=&sort_order="
	method := "GET"
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "username:password"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/audit_logs")
		.newBuilder()
		.addQueryParameter("filter[action]", "")
		.addQueryParameter("filter[actor_id]", "")
		.addQueryParameter("filter[created_at]", "")
		.addQueryParameter("filter[ip_address]", "")
		.addQueryParameter("filter[source_id]", "")
		.addQueryParameter("filter[source_type]", "")
		.addQueryParameter("sort", "")
		.addQueryParameter("sort_by", "")
		.addQueryParameter("sort_order", "");

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("GET", null)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", Credentials.basic("your-email", "your-password"))
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');

var config = {
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/audit_logs',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "username:password"
  },
  params: {
    'filter[action]': '',
    'filter[actor_id]': '',
    'filter[created_at]': '',
    'filter[ip_address]': '',
    'filter[source_id]': '',
    'filter[source_type]': '',
    'sort': '',
    'sort_by': '',
    'sort_order': '',
  },
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests

url = "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/audit_logs?filter[action]=&filter[actor_id]=&filter[created_at]=&filter[ip_address]=&filter[source_id]=&filter[source_type]=&sort=&sort_by=&sort_order="
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}

response = requests.request(
	"GET",
	url,
	auth=('<username>', '<password>'),
	headers=headers
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
uri = URI("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/audit_logs")
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form("filter[action]": "", "filter[actor_id]": "", "filter[created_at]": "", "filter[ip_address]": "", "filter[source_id]": "", "filter[source_type]": "", "sort": "", "sort_by": "", "sort_order": "")
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
request.basic_auth "username", "password"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

200 OK

// Status 200 OK

{
  "audit_logs": [
    {
      "action": "update",
      "actor_id": 1234,
      "actor_name": "Sameer Patel",
      "change_description": "Role changed from Administrator to End User",
      "created_at": "2012-03-05T11:32:44Z",
      "id": 498483,
      "ip_address": "209.119.38.228",
      "source_id": 3456,
      "source_label": "John Doe",
      "source_type": "user",
      "url": "https://company.zendesk.com/api/v2/audit_logs/498483.json"
    }
  ]
}

Show Audit Log

• GET /api/v2/audit_logs/{audit_log_id}

Allowed For

• Admins on accounts that have audit-log access

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Required	Description
audit_log_id	integer	Path	true	The ID of the audit log

Code Samples

curl

curl https://helpdesk.zendesk.com/api/v2/audit_logs/{audit_log_id}.json \
  -v -u {email_address}:{password}

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/audit_logs/498483"
	method := "GET"
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "username:password"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/audit_logs/498483")
		.newBuilder();

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("GET", null)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", Credentials.basic("your-email", "your-password"))
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');

var config = {
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/audit_logs/498483',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "username:password"
  },
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests

url = "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/audit_logs/498483"
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}

response = requests.request(
	"GET",
	url,
	auth=('<username>', '<password>'),
	headers=headers
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
uri = URI("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/audit_logs/498483")
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
request.basic_auth "username", "password"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

200 OK

// Status 200 OK

{
  "audit_log": {
    "action": "update",
    "actor_id": 1234,
    "actor_name": "Sameer Patel",
    "change_description": "Role changed from Administrator to End User",
    "created_at": "2012-03-05T11:32:44Z",
    "id": 498483,
    "ip_address": "209.119.38.228",
    "source_id": 3456,
    "source_label": "John Doe",
    "source_type": "user",
    "url": "https://company.zendesk.com/api/v2/audit_logs/498483.json"
  }
}

Export Audit Logs

• POST /api/v2/audit_logs/export

Allowed For

• Admins on accounts that have audit log access

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Required	Description
filter[action]	string	Query	false	Filter audit logs by the action
filter[actor_id]	integer	Query	false	Filter audit logs by the actor id
filter[created_at]	string	Query	false	Filter audit logs by the time of creation. When used, you must specify filter[created_at] twice in your request, first with the start time and again with an end time
filter[ip_address]	string	Query	false	Filter audit logs by the ip address
filter[source_id]	integer	Query	false	Filter audit logs by the source id. Requires filter[source_type] to also be set.
filter[source_type]	string	Query	false	Filter audit logs by the source type. For example, user or rule

Limits

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Rate Limits	Scopes	Interval	Sandbox	Trial	Default

"Default" applies to all Zendesk suite and support plans. Please refer to the general account limits for more information.

Code Samples

curl

curl https://helpdesk.zendesk.com/api/v2/audit_logs/export.json \
  -v -u {email_address}:{password}

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/audit_logs/export?filter[action]=&filter[actor_id]=&filter[created_at]=&filter[ip_address]=&filter[source_id]=&filter[source_type]="
	method := "POST"
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "username:password"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/audit_logs/export")
		.newBuilder()
		.addQueryParameter("filter[action]", "")
		.addQueryParameter("filter[actor_id]", "")
		.addQueryParameter("filter[created_at]", "")
		.addQueryParameter("filter[ip_address]", "")
		.addQueryParameter("filter[source_id]", "")
		.addQueryParameter("filter[source_type]", "");
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(MediaType.parse("application/json"),
		"""
""");

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("POST", body)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", Credentials.basic("your-email", "your-password"))
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');

var config = {
  method: 'POST',
  url: 'https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/audit_logs/export',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "username:password"
  },
  params: {
    'filter[action]': '',
    'filter[actor_id]': '',
    'filter[created_at]': '',
    'filter[ip_address]': '',
    'filter[source_id]': '',
    'filter[source_type]': '',
  },
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests

url = "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/audit_logs/export?filter[action]=&filter[actor_id]=&filter[created_at]=&filter[ip_address]=&filter[source_id]=&filter[source_type]="
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}

response = requests.request(
	"POST",
	url,
	auth=('<username>', '<password>'),
	headers=headers
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
uri = URI("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/audit_logs/export")
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form("filter[action]": "", "filter[actor_id]": "", "filter[created_at]": "", "filter[ip_address]": "", "filter[source_id]": "", "filter[source_type]": "")
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
request.basic_auth "username", "password"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

202 Accepted

// Status 202 Accepted

null