Commit c4eb609c authored by Evan Read's avatar Evan Read

Merge branch 'docs-fix-audit-badge' into 'master'

Docs: fix Audit Events badge

Closes #9360

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ee!9296
parents 51c89e8d 11b4c6e2
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last_updated: 2017-12-13
last_updated: 2019-02-04
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# Audit Events **[STARTER ONLY]**
# Audit Events
GitLab Enterprise Edition offers a way to view the changes made within the
GitLab server as a help to system administrators.
GitLab offers a way to view the changes made within the GitLab server for owners and administrators on a [paid plan][ee].
GitLab system administrators can also take advantage of the logs located on the
filesystem, see [the logs system documentation](logs.md) for more details.
## Overview
**Audit Events** is a tool for GitLab Enterprise Edition administrators to be
**Audit Events** is a tool for GitLab owners and administrators to be
able to track important events such as who performed certain actions and the
time they happened. These actions could be, for example, change a user
permission level, who added a new user, or who removed a user.
......@@ -20,20 +19,20 @@ permission level, who added a new user, or who removed a user.
## Use-cases
- Check who was the person who changed the permission level of a particular
user for a project in your GitLab EE instance.
user for a project in GitLab.
- Use it to track which users have access to a certain group of projects
in your GitLab instance, and who gave them that permission level.
in GitLab, and who gave them that permission level.
## List of events
There are two kinds of events logged:
- Events scoped to the group or project, used by group / project managers
to loop up who made what change
- Events scoped to the whole GitLab instance, used by your Compliance team to
perform formal audits
to look up who made what change.
- Instance events scoped to the whole GitLab instance, used by your Compliance team to
perform formal audits.
### Group events
### Group events **[STARTER]**
NOTE: **Note:**
You need Owner [permissions] to view the group Audit Events page.
......@@ -60,7 +59,7 @@ From there, you can see the following actions:
- 2FA enforcement/grace period changed
- Roles allowed to create project changed
### Project events
### Project events **[STARTER]**
NOTE: **Note:**
You need Maintainer [permissions] or higher to view the project Audit Events page.
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......@@ -105,7 +105,9 @@ Learn how to install, configure, update, and maintain your GitLab instance.
- See also other [authentication](../topics/authentication/index.md#gitlab-administrators) topics (for example, enforcing 2FA).
- [Email users](../tools/email.md): Email GitLab users from within GitLab. **[STARTER ONLY]**
- [User Cohorts](../user/admin_area/user_cohorts.md): Display the monthly cohorts of new users and their activities over time.
- [Audit logs and events](audit_events.md): View the changes made within the GitLab server. **[STARTER ONLY]**
- [Audit logs and events](audit_events.md): View the changes made within the GitLab server for:
- Groups and projects. **[STARTER]**
- Instances. **[PREMIUM ONLY]**
- [Auditor users](auditor_users.md): Users with read-only access to all projects, groups, and other resources on the GitLab instance. **[PREMIUM ONLY]**
- [Incoming email](incoming_email.md): Configure incoming emails to allow
users to [reply by email], create [issues by email] and
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