*Audit trail

Technical Article | TA-20201002-TP-48

VDG Sense | Misc |

The audit trail is a chronological record of executed user actions in VDG Sense. The audit trail provides a detailed and human-readable log file that can be used as documentary evidence of an operator actions during an event. The audit trail generates a User log file, which can be found in the log folder of the Client.

The user log file contains user, macro or API actions performed on the client. Each entry is logged as a readable line of text, separated in several columns.

  User log file entry example of a login of the user “Administrator”

Column name

Description

Column name

Description

UTC-Timestamp

This is the utc timestamp of the action.

Operator

This is the name and/or id to identify the user that is performing the action.

ActionName

The action name. This is a defined name of a Sense action.

ActionType

The type of the action or the entity that initiates the action, like: operator, macro, api.

ActionGroup

This could give a visual clue about to what group the action belongs, like: live, backup, export etc. This is optional

ActionValues

This is a colon-delimited (‘,’) list of parameters required to perform the action.