Depending on your Google Workspace edition, you might have access to the security investigation tool, which has more advanced features. For example, super admins can identify, triage, and take action on security and privacy issues. Learn more
As your organization's administrator, you can run searches and take action on Meet log events. There you can review meeting activity in your organization. For example, you can find out when a user starts a meeting, where they’re joining meetings from, and who was in a meeting.
Need help during a meeting or for a specific meeting?
You can troubleshoot meetings in real time using the Meet quality tool. Go to Track meeting quality and statistics.
Forward log event data to Google Cloud
You can opt in to share log event data with Google Cloud. If you turn on sharing, data is forwarded to Cloud Logging where you can query and view your logs and control how you route and store your logs.
The type of log event data you can share with Google Cloud depends on your Google Workspace, Cloud Identity, or Essentials account.
Run a search for log events
Your ability to run a search depends on your Google edition, your administrative privileges, and the data source. You can run a search on all users, regardless of their Google Workspace edition.
To run a search for log events, first choose a data source. Then, choose one or more filters for your search.
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Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).
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In the Admin console, go to Menu
Reporting
Audit and investigation
- Click Add a filter, and then select an attribute.
- In the pop-up window, select an operator
- (Optional) To create multiple filters for your search, repeat this step.
- (Optional) To add a search operator, above Add a filter, select AND or OR.
- Click Search.
Note: Using the Filter tab, you can include simple parameter and value pairs to filter the search results. You can also use the Condition builder tab, where the filters are represented as conditions with AND/OR operators.
To run a search in the security investigation tool, first choose a data source. Then, choose one or more conditions for your search. For each condition, choose an attribute, an operator, and a value.
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Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).
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In the Admin console, go to Menu
Security
- Click Data source and select Meet log events.
- Click Add Condition.
Tip: You can include one or more conditions in your search or customize your search with nested queries. For details, go to Customize your search with nested queries. - Click Attribute
For a complete list of attributes, go to the Attribute descriptions section (later on this page). - Select an operator.
- Enter a value or select a value from the list.
- (Optional) To add more search conditions, repeat steps 4–7.
- Click Search.
You can review the search results from the investigation tool in a table at the bottom of the page. - (Optional) To save your investigation, click Save
Notes
- In the Condition builder tab, filters are represented as conditions with AND/OR operators. You can also use the Filter tab to include simple parameter and value pairs to filter the search results.
- If you gave a user a new name, you will not see query results with the user's old name. For example, if you rename [email protected] to [email protected], you will not see results for events related to [email protected].
Attribute descriptions
For this data source, you can use the following attributes when searching log event data:
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Action description | User's description when reporting abuse in a meeting |
| Action reason | User's reason when reporting abuse in a meeting |
| Action time | The actual time of an action |
| Actor | The actor's email address or phone number, or the Meet hardware's device ID, from which the actor joined the meeting |
| Actor group name |
Group name of the actor. For more information, go to Filtering results by Google Group. To add a group to your filtering groups allowlist:
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| Actor identifier type | Identifier type of the user who joined the meeting, such as Email Address or Phone Number |
| Actor name | Name of the participant who joined the meeting |
| Actor organizational unit | Organizational unit of the actor |
| Calendar event ID | ID of the calendar event associated with the meeting, if it exists |
| Call rating out of 5 | Rating of the Meet meeting from 1 to 5 |
| City | City from which the participant joined a meeting |
| Client type | Type of the meet client, such as Android, iOS, or Web browser |
| Conference ID | ID of the conference, which is an instance of a meeting. For example, in an ongoing weekly meeting, each meeting has a unique conference ID. |
| Country | Country/region code of the country/region from which a participant joined the meeting |
| Date | Date and time of the event (displayed in your browser's default time zone) |
| Duration (seconds) | Amount of time a participant stayed in the meeting |
| Endpoint ID | Unique identifier for each participant |
| Event | The logged event action, such as Abuse report submitted or Livestreamwatched |
| IP address | IP address of the participant who joined the meeting |
| Live stream view page ID | The ID for the Meet conference live stream view page. Recurrent meetings have the same live stream view page ID |
| Meeting code | Code for the meeting. Recurrent meetings have the same meeting code. |
| Organizer email | Email address of the meeting organizer |
| Participant outside organization | Whether or not the participant is from within the organization |
| Product type | The product used to join the meeting, such as Google Meet |
| Streaming session state | The status of a streaming session (recording, broadcasting, transcription, etc.) |
| Target | Email address of the reported participant |
| Target display names | Display names of reported users |
| Target phone number | Phone number of the reported device |
| Target user count | The number of users affected by the action |
Note: If you gave a user a new name, you will not see query results with the user's old name. For example, if you rename [email protected] to [email protected], you will not see results for events related to [email protected].
Identify meeting participants
Some log event attributes described above, such as Actor, Actor Name, and Country, can help you understand who joined meetings inside and outside your organization (internal and external meetings). Depending on the participant and meeting type, information in the log event data might be:
- Shown as clear text—Displayed as unmasked, readable text.
- Obscured—Displayed with asterisks (*) to mask the information. For example, an obscured email address might include these characters: li***@s***.com.
- Not shown—Information that's not displayed in the log.
The following table shows participant identifiers available in log event data. This table also helps you understand what's available to other organizations when people from your organization join their meetings.
| Participant identifier | Available information |
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Country and IP address |
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Email & device ID |
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| Name | Shown as clear text for all participants |
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Organizer email |
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| Phone number | Obscured for all participants |
Note: When the participant is an anonymous user, the Actor identifier type field is blank and the Actor Name field is the name submitted by the user.
Get other Meet data
- For exact meeting times, including cost, go to the Voice audit log.
- Review events and parameters for various types of Google Meet Audit activity events using APIs in the Google Workspace Admin SDK.
Manage log event data
Manage search results column data
You can control which data columns appear in your search results.
- At the top-right of the search results table, click Manage columns
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- (Optional) To remove current columns, click Remove
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- (Optional) To add columns, next to Add new column, click the Down arrow
and select the data column.
Repeat as needed. - (Optional) To change the order of the columns, drag the data column names.
- Click Save.
Export search result data
You can export search results to Google Sheets or to a CSV file.
- At the top of the search results table, click Export all.
- Enter a name
The export displays below the search results table under Export action results. - To view the data, click the name of your export.
The export opens in Google Sheets.
Export limits vary:
- The total results of the export are limited to 100,000 rows (except for Gmail message searches, which are limited to 10,000 rows).
- Supported editions for this feature: Frontline Standard; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus; Education Standard and Education Plus; Enterprise Essentials Plus; Cloud Identity Premium. Compare your edition
If you have the security investigation tool, the total results of the export are limited to 30 million rows (except for Gmail message searches, which are limited to 10,000 rows).
For more information, see Export search results.
When and how long is data available?
Take action based on search results
- You can set up alerts based on log event data using reporting rules. For instructions, see Create and manage reporting rules.
- Supported editions for this feature: Frontline Standard; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus; Education Standard and Education Plus; Enterprise Essentials Plus; Cloud Identity Premium. Compare your edition
To help prevent, detect, and remediate security issues efficiently, you can automate actions in the security investigation tool and set up alerts by creating activity rules. To set up a rule, set up conditions for the rule, and then specify what actions to perform when the conditions are met. For details and instructions, see Create and manage activity rules.
Supported editions for this feature: Frontline Standard; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus; Education Standard and Education Plus; Enterprise Essentials Plus; Cloud Identity Premium. Compare your edition
After you run a search in the security investigation tool, you can act on your search results. For example, you can run a search based on Gmail log events and then use the tool to delete specific messages, send messages to quarantine, or send messages to users' inboxes. For more details, go to Take action based on search results.
Manage your investigations
Supported editions for this feature: Frontline Standard; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus; Education Standard and Education Plus; Enterprise Essentials Plus; Cloud Identity Premium. Compare your edition
View your list of investigationsTo view a list of the investigations that you own and that were shared with you, click View investigations . The investigation list includes the names, descriptions, and owners of the investigations, and the date last modified.
From this list, you can take action on any investigations that you own—for example, to delete an investigation. Check the box for an investigation and then click Actions.
Note: Directly above your list of investigations, under Quick access, you can view recently saved investigations.
As a super administrator, click Settings to:
- Change the time zone for your investigations. The time zone applies to search conditions and results.
- Turn on or off Require reviewer. For more details, go to Require reviewers for bulk actions.
- Turn on or off View content. This setting allows admins with the appropriate privileges to view content.
- Turn on or off Enable action justification.
For instructions and details, go to Configure settings for your investigations.
To save your search criteria or share it with others, you can create and save an investigation, and then share, duplicate, or delete it.
For details, go to Save, share, delete, and duplicate investigations.
