# Audit Trails

Audit Trails track all activities within the OvalEdge, maintaining a comprehensive record of actions, including who performed them and when. These activities span changes across the data catalog, governance catalog, user logins, role modifications, reference data management, lineage, data quality rules, AI interactions, project updates, object access, service desk operations, and other related areas.

**Access Control**

Only Administrators (ovaledge.role.admin) can view the Audit Trails, located within the Administration module.

**Audit Information Captured**

* **Users:** Login/logout details, role updates.
  * **Logins:** Login/logout times, duration, success/failure status, IP address.
  * **User Roles:** Added or deleted user roles.
  * **Browser Extension Login:** User Sign-in and Sign-out activities in the OvalEdge Browser Extension.
* **Catalog:** Changes to Terms, Tags, Data Objects, Codes, Custom Fields, and Descriptions (add, update, delete, Audit).
  * Terms, Tags: Changes to specific data objects (who made the change).
  * Data Objects: Governance role changes (crawled data and manual updates).
  * Codes: Queries executed and downloaded.
  * Custom Fields/Objects/Descriptions: Creation and update details.
* **Connectors:** Setup, deletion, or modification of connections.
* **Governance Catalog:** Changes to Tags, Terms, Domains, and Data Classification Recommendations (add, update, delete, Audit).
* **Reference Data Management:** Creation, update, or deletion of Reference Data units and attributes.
* **Data Quality Rules:** Actions, such as Changing Success Criteria, Input Criteria, Data Quality-Associated Objects, and Steward, performed on the Data Quality Rule are captured.
* **AI Prompt:** Actions taken using AI to generate or modify metadata descriptions and user interactions with AskEdgi are captured.
* **Projects:** Creation, update, or deletion of projects.
* **Others:** It allows filtering of audit logs by predefined Categories and Subcategories, helping to isolate records related to specific operational areas. For example, selecting 'Security' as the Category and 'Object Access' as the Subcategory displays detailed logs of actions performed on objects such as Dashboards, Tables, and Connectors.


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