Audit Logs empower your cybersecurity and compliance teams to:

Quickly Gain Usage Insights: Download a timeline of all actions within Crossbeam to understand their impact on partners and users.
Effortlessly Scale Compliance: Access essential data as your partner network grows to maintain compliance.
Ensure Data Governance: Monitor historical changes in data management, sharing, partnerships, populations, team invitations, and user roles.

In this article:

How to Export Your Audit Logs
Audit Logs Data
FAQs

✍️ Note

This is available on our Supernode Plan. To upgrade your account, visit the Plan & Billing page.

Keep reading or watching this video to learn more:

How to Export Your Audit Logs

From the Crossbeam Settings icon, select Organizational Settings from the side panel.

Scroll down to the Audit Logs section.

Select a date range for your Audit Log export.

After selecting the date range, click the Export CSV button.

You will receive an email to download a CSV file of your audit history for the date range you have selected.

Screenshot of download for CSV file audit history in Crossbeam

Once you've downloaded your CSV export, you can export it to Google Sheets or Excel to review your audit history.

✍️ Note

You can export historical actions that have occurred since May 28th, 2021 to a CSV file. The following fields may be missing in audit log exports because Crossbeam didn’t start tracking this data until May 11, 2022: metadata, previous state, users impacted, organizations impacted, IP address.

Audit Logs Data

Screenshot of Excel spreadsheet with audit logs from Crossbeam

Data source connection(s) changes

Removed a data source
Synced additional fields
Connected a data source
Removed fields being synced
Connection status changes
Update frequency changes
Established connection was reauthorized

Data sharing defaults/settings changes

Which population was affected
Which partners were impacted by the change
Date/time the change was made
What the sharing default/setting was before and what it is now
Who made the change (User or system account associated with an event)

Partnership invites

Date/time invite was accepted/sent
Who made the change (User or system account associated with an event)

Population changes

What field(s) was previously included/excluded
Date/time the change was made
Which partners were impacted by this change
Who made the change (User or system account associated with an event)

Integrations Activity

Who installed, updated, or removed an integration
Date/time the integration was installed, updated, or removed
What action was taken: installed, updated, or removed
Which integration was impacted

User role changes

If the role was updated
What were the changes made
Date/time the change was made/role was created
Who made the change (User or system account associated with an event)

Team invites and users

Date/time invite was sent or user was deleted
Who sent the invite or deleted the user (User or system account associated with an event)

Additional data

Activity Date - the date and time the action took place (times will be in UTC)
IP Address
User - the name of the user who completed the action
User Email Address - the email address of the user who completed the action
Metadata - specific details about the completed action
- (i.e. If a user created a population, the metadata will tell you the population name, the data source it's pulling from, and what filters are applied)
Previous State - what the data was before a user changed it
Partner(s) Impacted - the names of the partner(s) impacted
User(s) Impacted - The ID, name, and email of user(s) impacted by changes to user roles or permissions and new users/removed users on the Team page.

FAQs

Can you revert changes or restore a “previous version” of an action?
No

Can I export my audit log data into other tools via API access?
We do not offer that capability at this time.

Who can view Audit Logs?
Admins or users with the “View Audit Logs” permission in Crossbeam.

How much historical data can I export?
You can export historical actions that have occurred since May 28th, 2021 to a CSV file. The following fields may be missing in audit log exports because Crossbeam didn’t start tracking this data until May 11, 2022.

Metadata (specific details about actions taken in Crossbeam)
previous_state
users_impacted
organizations_impacted
ip_address

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