This feature is available for Account Owners and Administrators on Enterprise accounts.
For Enterprise plans with Workspaces: audit logs at the Workspace level are limited to that Workspace; logs at the Organization level aggregate all Workspaces.
Audit logs give Enterprise admins a record of who did what, when, and to which asset across the account. This article lists the events your audit log tracks, explains how to read a log entry, and points you to the search and filter tools you'll use to find what you need.
To open the log, go to Manage Team → Settings → Policies and Permissions → Audit logs. For step-by-step access instructions, see How to access and enable audit logs.
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How to read an entry
Every entry shows the actor (with their avatar), the event, the affected object, and a precise timestamp (U.S. Eastern Time).
- User avatars appear next to each entry so you can scan activity by person at a glance.
- Clickable references let you jump straight from a log entry to the related asset — for example, the video page, folder, or showcase.
- Privacy-change details are inlined: when a privacy setting changes, the entry shows exactly what it was changed to.
- A "Vimeo impersonator" badge distinguishes actions taken by Vimeo employees in ModWorld from actions taken by your team. Use it to filter out vendor-side activity during incident reviews.
Searching and filtering
Two controls in the audit logs header help you focus on the records that matter:
- User search — type a person's name to see every action they took. Useful for off-boarding reviews, role-change investigations, or auditing a single team member's activity over a date range.
- Event-type filter — narrow the log to a single category (for example, only privacy changes or only downloads).
Both controls combine with the date range filter and the CSV export. See How do I filter and download my audit logs? for the full filter and export workflow.
What's tracked
Audit logs cover the following event categories. Each category contains multiple specific events; the list below is a high-level summary.
Member management
- Member invited, role changed, or removed
- Hiring Committee and team-permission updates
Video lifecycle
- Video uploaded, imported, published, replaced (new version), or deleted
- Review-link created
Privacy and sharing
- Video privacy changed (with the new value recorded)
- Embed privacy changed
- Video shared with a person, group, or via a link
- Folder shared
Downloads and embeds
- Video downloaded
- Embed-related actions
Live events
- Live event created, scheduled, started, finished
- Live event privacy changed
Showcases
- Showcase created, edited, deleted
- Videos added to or removed from a showcase
⚠️Note: Audit logs do not contain activity that occurred before the feature was released or before your account was upgraded to Enterprise. Mobile video creation and download activity is not tracked.
API parity
Everything that's API-applicable in the Audit Logs UI is also available through the Vimeo API. Specifically, on the API side we've:
- Added new events — the API emits the full set of new event types tracked by the UI.
- Added the ability to search the user of an action by email address or username.
- Added the ability to filter by event name(s) — single or multiple.
If you care about the underlying log data and querying capabilities, you're fully covered via API. The only things not exposed via API are presentation-layer improvements — user avatars, clickable references, the "Vimeo impersonator" badge, the redesigned layout — which wouldn't make sense in an API response anyway.
For details, see How do I use the API to access audit logs? and the Vimeo Developer reference.