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title: "Audit activity on Data Platform for compliance"
description: "Every create, update, delete and administrative action performed on a resource is recorded as an audit event"
url: https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/public-cloud/data-platform/control-center-auditing
lang: en
lastUpdated: 2026-09-14
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# Audit activity on Data Platform for compliance
## Objective
**Auditing** logs, stores and exposes all significant activity happening on Data Platform, so you can meet compliance obligations, enforce internal governance, and provide transparency to your stakeholders.
Every create, update, delete and administrative action performed on a resource is recorded as an audit event. Events are retained and can be filtered, browsed and reviewed by authorized users.
:::info
**Initial release.** Auditing is being rolled out progressively. Additional services and audit event types will be added in upcoming releases. The lists on this page will be kept up to date as coverage expands.
:::
## Access levels
Auditing is exposed at **two levels**:
| Level | Where | What it contains |
| :--------------- | :------------------------------------------- | :---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Project** | Control Center → Auditing (inside a Project) | Events scoped to a single Project: Connectors, Lakehouse Manager, Data Processing Engine, Analytics Manager and project IAM activity |
| **Organization** | Organization Settings → Auditing | Events scoped to the organization itself. Currently covers organization IAM and member management. Coverage for billing, quotas and similar organization-level activity is coming in a future release |
:::warning
Organization-level audit events **do not** include activity that happened inside a Project. To review project activity, open the corresponding Project and use its own Auditing page.
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## Project-level auditing
In the [Control Center](https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/public-cloud/data-platform/landing-page-control-center.md) of any Project, open the **Auditing** tab to see every significant event that happened inside that Project.
Each event is displayed with the following columns, in order:
| Column | Description |
| :----------- | :-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Time** | When the action occurred |
| **User** | User or service account that performed the action |
| **Action** | The operation performed (create, update, delete, etc.) |
| **Resource** | The specific resource acted upon (e.g. a table, workflow, dashboard) |
| **Service** | The service the event comes from (Connectors, Lakehouse Manager, DPE, Analytics Manager, IAM) |
You can [search](#search) the events by text, [filter](#filters) them by service, resource type and a custom time window, and switch to the [organization-level](#organization-level-auditing) view at any time from the same page.
### Event details
Click the **info icon** at the end of any row to open the event detail panel. From there, two views are available:
- **Event details**: the full payload of the event: actor, action, target resource, timestamps and any metadata recorded with the event.
- **Comparison**: a side-by-side diff of the resource _before_ and _after_ the action, so you can see exactly what changed.
## Organization-level auditing
From **Organization Settings**, open the **Auditing** tab to see organization-level activity.
Currently tracked at the organization level:
- Organization IAM (roles, policies, authentication providers)
- Member management (invitations, removals, role assignments)
Coming in upcoming releases:
- Billing activity
- Quotas
- Other organization-level settings
The organization-level view is scoped strictly to organization-level resources. For Project-internal activity, open the Project and use its own Auditing page.
## Roles
Auditing access is gated by two dedicated roles. The same two role names exist at **both levels** (organization and Project):
| Role | Capabilities |
| :--------------------- | :--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Audit Trail Admin** | Full management of auditing: view all events and configure audit settings at the scope of the role (organization or Project) |
| **Audit Trail Viewer** | Read-only access: view audit events at the scope of the role (organization or Project) |
A user needs the organization-level role to see the organization Auditing page, and the project-level role to see a Project's Auditing page. Assign them the same way as any other role from the [Users, Roles & Groups](https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/public-cloud/data-platform/landing-page-iam-users.md) page.
## Search
Every audit view has a search field above the event list. Type any text to keep only the events that contain it, in any of their fields: a user name, a resource name, an action, or a value recorded in the event payload. The search combines with the [filters](#filters) below, so you can narrow to a service and a time window first, then search within the result.
## Filters
### Services (project level)
At the Project level, events can be filtered by service:
- **Connectors**
- **Lakehouse Manager**
- **Data Processing Engine**
- **Analytics Manager**
- **Identity Access Manager**
### Resources
Once a service is selected, the resource filter exposes the resource types available for that service. The full list of audited resource types is:
| Category | Resource types |
| :----------------------------------------- | :----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Lakehouse Manager & Connectors | Source, Table, Attribute, Rule, Dataset, Virtual Attribute, View, Policy Tag, Policy Tag Binding |
| Data Processing Engine & Analytics Manager | Query, Dashboard, Repository, Workflow, Action, Environment, Notebook, Application |
| Identity Access Manager | Role, Service Account, User, Group |
### Time window
Every audit view lets you scope events to a specific time window. You can pick one of the preset ranges or define your own:
- **Today**
- **Yesterday**
- **Last 1 hour**
- **Last 6 hours**
- **Last 24 hours**
- **Last 7 days**
- **Last 30 days**
- **Custom**: pick exact **From** and **To** dates and times on the calendar, with a selectable timezone.
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