Audit event schema and examples

Audit event schema

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Audit events have a predictable schema in the body of the response.

Field	Description	Notes	Streaming Only Field
`author_id`	User ID of the user who triggered the event		No
`author_name`	Human-readable name of the author that triggered the event	Helpful when the author no longer exists	Yes
`created_at`	Timestamp when event was triggered		No
`details`	JSON object containing additional metadata	Has no defined schema but often contains additional information about an event	No
`entity_id`	ID of the audit event’s entity		No
`entity_path`	Full path of the entity affected by the auditable event		Yes
`entity_type`	String representation of the type of entity	Acceptable values include `User`, `Group`, and `Key`. This list is not exhaustive	No
`event_type`	String representation of the type of audit event		Yes
`id`	Unique identifier for the audit event	Can be used for deduplication if required	No
`ip_address`	IP address of the host used to trigger the event		Yes
`target_details`	Additional details about the target		Yes
`target_id`	ID of the audit event’s target		Yes
`target_type`	String representation of the target’s type		Yes

Audit event JSON schema

{
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "author_id": {
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "author_name": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "details": {},
    "ip_address": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "entity_id": {
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "entity_path": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "entity_type": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "event_type": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "target_id": {
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "target_type": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "target_details": {
      "type": "string"
    },
  },
  "type": "object"
}

Headers

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Headers are formatted as follows:

POST /logs HTTP/1.1
Host: <DESTINATION_HOST>
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
X-Gitlab-Event-Streaming-Token: <DESTINATION_TOKEN>
X-Gitlab-Audit-Event-Type: repository_git_operation

Example: audit event streaming on Git operations

Streaming audit events can be sent when authenticated users push, pull, or clone a project’s remote Git repositories:

Using SSH.
Using HTTP or HTTPS.
Using Download ( ) in GitLab UI.

Audit events are not captured for users that are not signed in. For example, when downloading a public project.

Example: audit event payloads for Git over SSH events with deploy key

Fetch:

{
  "id": "1",
  "author_id": -3,
  "entity_id": 29,
  "entity_type": "Project",
  "details": {
    "author_name": "deploy-key-name",
    "author_class": "DeployKey",
    "target_id": 29,
    "target_type": "Project",
    "target_details": "example-project",
    "custom_message": {
      "protocol": "ssh",
      "action": "git-upload-pack"
    },
    "ip_address": "127.0.0.1",
    "entity_path": "example-group/example-project"
  },
  "ip_address": "127.0.0.1",
  "author_name": "deploy-key-name",
  "entity_path": "example-group/example-project",
  "target_details": "example-project",
  "created_at": "2022-07-26T05:43:53.662Z",
  "target_type": "Project",
  "target_id": 29,
  "event_type": "repository_git_operation"
}

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Audit event schema and examples