V3 View Audit History in the Log Files

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Last updated: Sept 01, 2023


The Server Administrator can find and read the Audit Log files in:

/var/log/xcally/api-combined.yyyy-mm-dd.log

 

These log files report all the CRUD actions made on the Motion Server via API and the agent/user id and name that performed that action.

Here you find some examples of the activities traced in the log files:

  • Authentication

  • Create/Read/Update/Delete entries 


The audit log files have a maximum capacity of 100 MB  (10 files of 10 MB each on rotation).

A typical format of the log file is the following:

[2018-05-30 13:41:01] [INFO] api - GET 66.249.70.28 /api/variables?fields=createdAt,updatedAt,id,name,description&limit=10&offset=0&sort=-updatedAt 206 31ms id=1 name=admin role=admin

where:

  • [2018-05-30 13:41:01] - Log date

  • [INFO] - Log level

  • GET - HTTP METHOD

  • 66.249.70.28 - Remote Client IP Address

  • /api/variables?fields=createdAt,updatedAt,id,name,description&limit=10&offset=0&sort=-updatedAt - Requested endpoint and its parameters 

  • 206 - HTTP RESPONSE CODE

  • 31ms - Time elapsed between request and API response 

  • id=1 - Requester User/Agent Id

  • name=admin - Requester User/Agent Name

  • role=admin - Requester User/Agent Role

 

In the following example instead, we see the log for the actions performed by an Administrator on the queue id 47 (create, update, delete):

[2018-05-31 11:51:52] [INFO] api - POST 151.0.175.186 /api/voice/queues 201 37ms id=1 name=admin role=admin [2018-05-31 11:52:04] [INFO] api - PUT 151.0.175.186 /api/voice/queues/47 200 30ms id=1 name=admin role=admin [2018-05-31 11:53:04] [INFO] api - DELETE 151.0.175.186 /api/voice/queues/47 204 24ms id=1 name=admin role=admin



For further debugging purposes you may also enable this debug feature:
edit the hidden file /var/opt/motion2/.env and uncomment this line as follows

then restart the Motion Service following this procedure: https://xcally.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ADWI/pages/1853652993/Environment+variables#How-to-apply-environment-variables

Please note that this action will write more information in all the log files contained in /var/log/xcally/ causing a faster rotation.