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System Audit Logs

Endpoints for monitoring Veza user activity

Operation
Syntax

GET /api/preview/system/audit

GET /api/preview/system/audit/export

Audit Logs record every API call, providing a record of actions conducted within Veza. Depending on your use case, you can export a continuous list of events, or get events matching a filter in chronological order. Developers, administrators, and security teams can use these requests to:

  • Integrate Veza with an SIEM platform or other auditing tools

  • Detect potential inappropriate access or usage

  • Get insight into how users are interacting with the Veza platform

Pagination

Responses will include a next_page_token. Use this page_token in the request query to get the next batch of results.

Setting a page size is required for requests. The maximum page size is currently 10,000 records.

List audit events

This endpoint supports filtering by ended_at timestamp, method, user_id, and url. Results are ordered by time completed.

A timestamp filter is always required. The API allows querying events for up to 90 days in the past.

Example:

curl -X GET "$VEZA_URL/api/preview/system/audit?page_token=&page_size=1&filter=ended_at+GE+%222023-08-04T22:11:25.915674671Z%22" \
-H "authorization: Bearer $VEZA_TOKEN"

Export audit events

Returns a paginated list of events, intended for exporting entries into an external log management system.

To ingest events as they become available without skipping any entries, first make call with a persisted_at GE "TIMESTAMP" filter. Then, continuously call the next page. The export endpoint can return the error code ResourceExhaused. If encountered, clients should wait for a minute before retrying the request.

Example:

curl -X GET "$VEZA_URL/api/preview/system/audit/export?filter=persisted_at+GE+%222023-08-07T22:11:25.915674671Z%22&page_size=5&next_page_token=" \
-H "authorization: Bearer $VEZA_TOKEN"

Question: If a customer includes the persisted_at timestamp hard-coded in a script, and Veza only exports events for 1 month, what happens after a month?

Answer: The persisted_at parameter is ignored if you send a page_token in the API call. It won’t matter if the date is more than 90 or 30 days in the past.

Audit events

An event describes an API-level action, including the IP address and user agent of the caller. Requests can originate from user sessions, or from applications using API keys. The following is a sample event for a successful API key generation:

{
    "identity": {
        "user_id": "aeaa34cf-e97f-4315-b185-249018cf191c",
        "session_id": "b0ba024d-0158-4c7e-a47f-bbe8f7b98806",
        "api_key_id": "",
        "email": "cookie@cookie.ai"
    },
    "status": {
        "grpc_code": "OK",
        "http_status": 200,
        "error_reason": "OK"
    },
    "client": {
        "ip": "10.42.1.1",
        "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
    },
    "endpoint": "/api_protos.v1.APIKeyService/CreateAPIKey",
    "method": "POST",
    "url": "/api/preview/keys",
    "request_id": "1a98184880f9952551c53d836598b258",
    "request": {
        "name": "KeyName1"
    },
    "response": {
        "value": {
            "id": "fde4386f-3d85-4ef2-82d0-324dacb6e9ba",
            "name": "KeyName1",
            "team_id": "613df06e-9a40-4331-947c-5c327b54b228",
            "user_id": "aeaa34cf-e97f-4315-b185-249018cf191c"
        }
    },
    "started_at": "2023-07-26T08:23:17.134994459Z",
    "ended_at": "2023-07-26T08:23:17.151080751Z"
}

Identity

Field
Description

user_id

Unique user identifier.

session_id

Unique session identifier.

api_key_id

Unique identifier of an API key.

email

User email address.

Status

Field
Description

grpc_code

gRPC code indicating request status.

http_status

HTTP status code of the response.

error_reason

Details about a bad request.

Client

Field
Description

ip

Client IP address.

user_agent

Client user agent string.

Event

Field
Description

endpoint

The API endpoint that was accessed.

method

The HTTP method used for the request.

url

The URL of the request.

request_id

The unique identifier for the request.

request

The contents of the API request.

response

Excerpt of the API response.

started_at

RFC 3339 timestamp when the event started.

ended_at

RFC 3339 timestamp when the event ended.

  • request and response both only contain some whitelisted fields. Due to size limitations, the entire message is not recorded.

See for more details about the audit event object.

Audit events
List audit events
Export audit events
get
Authorizations
Query parameters
filterstringOptional

ended_at (GE, LT), method (EQ), user_ID (EQ), url (EQ)

page_sizeinteger · int32Optional
page_tokenstringOptional
Responses
200
A successful response.
application/json
401
Authorization information is missing or invalid.
403
Returned when the user does not have permission to access the resource.
application/json
404
Returned when the resource does not exist.
500
Server error
502
Returned when the service is temporarily unavailable.
503
Returned when the resource is temporarily unavailable.
get
GET /api/preview/system/audit HTTP/1.1
Host: 
Bearer: YOUR_API_KEY
Accept: */*
{
  "values": [
    {
      "identity": {
        "user_id": "text",
        "session_id": "text",
        "api_key_id": "text",
        "email": "text"
      },
      "status": {
        "grpc_code": "text",
        "http_status": 1,
        "error_reason": "UNKNOWN"
      },
      "client": {
        "ip": "text",
        "user_agent": "text"
      },
      "endpoint": "text",
      "method": "text",
      "url": "text",
      "request_id": "text",
      "request": {},
      "response": {},
      "started_at": "2025-05-29T10:27:01.835Z",
      "ended_at": "2025-05-29T10:27:01.835Z"
    }
  ],
  "next_page_token": "text"
}
get
Authorizations
Query parameters
filterstringOptional

persisted_at (GE)

page_sizeinteger · int32Optional
page_tokenstringOptional
Responses
200
A successful response.
application/json
401
Authorization information is missing or invalid.
403
Returned when the user does not have permission to access the resource.
application/json
404
Returned when the resource does not exist.
500
Server error
502
Returned when the service is temporarily unavailable.
503
Returned when the resource is temporarily unavailable.
get
GET /api/preview/system/audit/export HTTP/1.1
Host: 
Bearer: YOUR_API_KEY
Accept: */*
{
  "values": [
    {
      "identity": {
        "user_id": "text",
        "session_id": "text",
        "api_key_id": "text",
        "email": "text"
      },
      "status": {
        "grpc_code": "text",
        "http_status": 1,
        "error_reason": "UNKNOWN"
      },
      "client": {
        "ip": "text",
        "user_agent": "text"
      },
      "endpoint": "text",
      "method": "text",
      "url": "text",
      "request_id": "text",
      "request": {},
      "response": {},
      "started_at": "2025-05-29T10:27:01.835Z",
      "ended_at": "2025-05-29T10:27:01.835Z"
    }
  ],
  "next_page_token": "text"
}