Track user activity with audit logs

Use W&B Server audit logs to track user activity within your teams, and to conform to your enterprise governance requirements. The audit logs are JSON-formatted, and their access mechanism(s) depend on your W&B Server deployment type:

W&B Server Deployment type	Audit logs access mechanism(s)
Self-managed	Synced to instance-level bucket every 10 minutes. Also available using the API.
Dedicated Cloud with secure storage connector (BYOB)	Synced to instance-level bucket (BYOB) every 10 minutes. Also available using the API.
Dedicated Cloud with W&B managed storage (without BYOB)	Only available using the API.

Once you've access to your audit logs, analyze those using your preferred tools, such as Pandas, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, Microsoft Fabric, and more. You may need to transform the JSON-formatted audit logs into a format relevant to the tool before analysis. Information on how to transform your audit logs for specific tools is outside the scope of W&B documentation.

tip

Audit Log Retention: If a compliance, security or risk team in your organization requires audit logs to be retained for a specific period of time, W&B recommends to periodically transfer the logs from your instance-level bucket to a long-term retention storage. If you're instead using the API to access the audit logs, you can implement a simple script that runs periodically (like daily or every few days) to fetch any logs that may have been generated since the time of the last script run, and store those in a short-term storage for analysis or directly transfer to a long-term retention storage.

note

Audit logs are not available for W&B Multi-tenant Cloud yet.

Audit log schema

The following table lists all the different keys that might be present in your audit logs. Each log contains only the assets relevant to the corresponding action, and others are omitted from the log.

Key	Definition
timestamp	Time stamp in RFC3339 format. For example: 2023-01-23T12:34:56Z, represents 12:34:56 UTC time on Jan 23, 2023.
action	What action did the user take.
actor_user_id	If present, ID of the logged-in user who performed the action.
response_code	Http response code for the action.
artifact_asset	If present, action was taken on this artifact id
artifact_sequence_asset	If present, action was taken on this artifact sequence id
entity_asset	If present, action was taken on this entity or team id.
project_asset	If present, action was taken on this project id.
report_asset	If present, action was taken on this report id.
user_asset	If present, action was taken on this user asset.
cli_version	If the action is taken via python SDK, this will contain the version
actor_ip	IP address of the logged-in user.
actor_email	if present, action was taken on this actor email.
artifact_digest	if present, action was taken on this artifact digest.
artifact_qualified_name	if present, action was taken on this artifact.
entity_name	if present, action was taken on this entity or team name.
project_name	if present, action was taken on this project name.
report_name	if present, action was taken on this report name.
user_email	if present, action was taken on this user email.

Personally identifiable information (PII) like email ids, project, team and report names are available only using the API endpoint option, and can be turned off as described below.

Fetch audit logs using API

An instance admin can fetch the audit logs for your W&B server instance using the following API:

1. Construct the full API endpoint using a combination of the base endpoint <wandb-server-url>/admin/audit_logs and the following URL parameters:
   • numDays : logs will be fetched starting from today - numdays to most recent; defaults to 0 i.e. logs will be returned only for today
   • anonymize : if set to true, remove any PII; defaults to false
2. Execute HTTP GET request on the constructed full API endpoint, either by directly running it within a modern browser, or by using a tool like Postman, HTTPie, cURL command or more.

If your W&B Server instance URL is https://mycompany.wandb.io and you would like to get audit logs without PII for user activity within the last week, your API endpoint will be https://mycompany.wandb.io?numDays=7&anonymize=true.

note

Only W&B Server instance admins can fetch audit logs using the API. If you are not an instance admin or not logged into your organization, you will get the HTTP 403 Forbidden error.

The API response contains new-line separated JSON objects. Objects will include the fields described in the schema. It's the same format which is used when syncing audit log files to an instance-level bucket (wherever applicable as mentioned earlier). In those cases, the audit logs are located at the /wandb-audit-logs directory in your bucket.

Actions

The following table describes possible actions that can be recorded by W&B:

Action	Definition
artifact:create	Artifact is created.
artifact:delete	Artifact is deleted.
artifact:read	Artifact is read.
project:delete	Project is deleted.
project:read	Project is read.
report:read	Report is read.
run:delete	Run is deleted.
run:delete_many	Runs are deleted in batch.
run:update_many	Runs are updated in batch.
run:stop	Run is stopped.
run:undelete_many	Runs are brought back from trash in batch.
run:update	Run is updated.
sweep:create_agent	Sweep agent is created.
team:invite_user	User is invited to team.
team:create_service_account	Service account is created for the team.
team:create	Team is created.
team:uninvite	User or service account is uninvited from team.
team:delete	Team is deleted.
user:create	User is created.
user:delete_api_key	API key for the user is deleted.
user:deactivate	User is deactivated.
user:create_api_key	API key for the user is created.
user:permanently_delete	User is permanently deleted.
user:reactivate	User is reactivated.
user:update	User is updated.
user:read	User profile is read.
user:login	User logs in.
user:initiate_login	User initiates log in.
user:logout	User logs out.