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Audit logs can contain hundreds or even thousands of events tracked daily, especially if you have multiple teams/users working within the Zephyr application. We understand that this can be frustrating when you want to look for something specific in regard to regarding a tracked event. With this in mind, we’ve created a way for you to search through and narrow your audit logs to look for exactly what’s needed. By using filters, we can narrow our search of tracked events in the audit log.
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Entities: Category of the action being performed (testcasetest case, requirement, etc.).
Operation: The type of action that is performed by the user (test case creation, re-index, etc.).
User: The user that performed the operation/action.
From and To: The date range for the tracked events that you want to view within that timeframe. “From” is the start date of the timeframe and “To” is the end date of the timeframe.
1. To search through your audit logs using filters, simply use the drop-downs dropdowns for each filter or type in the correct operation filter.
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3. You will then be prompted with a warning about truncating your audit log. This is here to confirm you are ready to truncate your logs and remove all log entries on the date selected and everything before the date selected as well. Click the Yes, Truncate Audit Log button to confirm and proceed to truncating truncate your audit log. This will remove the audit log entries for the selected timeframe and will display the audit log table after truncating is complete.
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You can opt-in to share your usage data with SmartBear. This allows us to get a better insight into what our customers are up to and what sort of features are being used the most throughout Zephyr. With this information, we can see where our users are running into problems and it helps us gather information for troubleshooting. By providing us with this usage information, we have insight into how we can improve our product to increase the efficiency for of our users. We do not collect any personally identifiable information regarding our users, or the actions done within your Zephyr system.
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The log files are broken up at midnight and will append the date for the previous day to the recorded log file.
Log files essentially record up to 24 hours allowing users to navigate to the specific log file rather than parsing one enormous log file.
FAQ
We store all the Audit logs from the beginning, right?
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The audit logs are stored since the beginning of the application when it is installed. Once you install the build and
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log in as
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Test Manager, Test Lead, or Tester One you can find the “audit log” section
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on the “About Zephyr” page. Just provide or select the event that
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you want to see
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the details.
Does our app remove audit logs automatically after some entries or count exceeds? Do we have any limitation on showing the total count/number of audit logs?
We do not have any limitations to date, so no limit count is there.
Automatically the log entries will not be removed as the data is saved in the database. They will be removed only when the user hits the “Truncate Log” button and re-confirms it.
Also, upon uninstalling the application, the cleaning process is done, then only the data will be removed automatically.
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Till the user manually truncate the records we will show ALL the audit log entries. Correct?
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All the log entries are retained, until the user truncates them up to the provided date. We can select up to the current date, future dates are not selectable.
By using truncate option users can dispose of the audit log record based on the time frame and when they want
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We can select the date from the drop-down provided and all the log entries on and before that date will be deleted. As of now, no option is available for selecting the time on a given date.
If you select the current date, then all the logs are deleted, and fresh audit log entries begin afterward.