Audit logs

Audit Logs help Administrators on Enterprise accounts who need to generate member activity reports making it easier to monitor and troubleshoot platform usage and maintain records for compliance purposes.

⚠️Note: This feature is currently in an open beta. Mobile video creation and download activity are not currently tracked in activity logs. Audit logs do not contain activity that occurred prior to this feature's release.

In this article:

• Access and export audit logs
• Overview of activity tracked in audit logs
• Disabling audit logs

Access and export audit logs

As an admin of an enterprise account, you can access the audit logs by following these steps: 

1. After logging into Vimeo, click on Manage Team on the left side of the page.
2. On the Team management page, select the Settings tab. 
3. At the bottom of the Policies and Permissions section, select Audit logs.
   
   
4. Choose the desired time period for accessing the logs, then click on Export CSV to download the file.

The time stamp on audit log activity is provided in U.S. Eastern Time. You can also access audit logs using Vimeo's API.

Overview of activity tracked in audit logs

The events tracked in audit logs include:

• Team user invited, deleted, role updated
• Videos uploaded, moved, deleted, versions
• Folders created, shared, moved, and deleted
• Updated privacy setting
• Live event created, started, finished
• Change in clip settings
• Change in user settings
• Data retention creation

Audit logs are available for the last year but can be exported for any time period selected within the date picker. For every event in the audit logs, you’ll see:

• The team member’s username
• The team member’s role
• The team member’s location
• The team member’s platform type, like mac_web or windows_web
• The team member’s IP address
• The object type that has been affected, like video, folder, or team_user
• The object ID, which is useful for actions being taken via the API
  
• The event that has taken place, like creating a video, deleting a video, updating a video’s privacy, or deleting a user
• The date & time the event has taken place in EST
• The title of the object that has been affected, like the video’s title or the user’s email address
  

Disabling audit logs

Audit logs are enabled for Enterprise accounts by default. If your organization would no longer like to track audit logs, you can toggle it off at the top of the audit log page (Manage team > Settings > Audit logs > Enable audit logs).
 
When the audit logs feature has been disabled:

• You will no longer be able to view the historical logs or export them via the API.
• We also will no longer track logs in your account, so if you enable audit logs again we will not have tracked events during the period when it was disabled.
• If the feature was previously enabled, those captured logs will not be wiped and will be available in your account when you re-enable the feature.