Audit log availability

Question

Dear Support,

If i have M365 Business basic and business standard how many days audit log is availble free and if its paid after some tenure what is the period i need to know. Total how many days audit report is available, how much is freely available to be downloaded and what tenure is paid?

For enterprise license please mention the same .

Audit reports for exchange primarily however if answered sharepoint and onedrive would be bonus.

Regards

Anamika

Answer 1

Hello Anamika MukherjeeID,

Thanks for getting back. Based on your shared screenshot, seems your concern is with sign in activity reports from Azure active directory side and as we are belongs from Microsoft365 for business online team, our expertise is limited for it but we tried to check for this requirement and found some information which we are sharing here with screenshot. You can find the same information from out official article How long does Azure AD store the data?

Besides this details, if you need any further information, please kindly post your question to Azure team via Microsoft Q&A site, that engineer team have special expertise in it and will assist you further. At this point, your kind undesratdning will be highly appricated.

Thank you so much for your time.

Regards,

Ankita Vaidya

Answer 2

HI,

Got late in replying back. Hope the conversation is still on. Have attached the screen shot where the option post 7 days audit report is not allowed. I am reiterating the scenario, the customer has Business Basic plan and wants to download the audit log of a user, however when he is trying to do so this is the screen coming giving just 7 days option, the custom time interval is not clickable and gives this message in red.

The client needs to download for a month time.

Answer 3

Hello Anamika MukherjeeID,

Based on your post, we have checked our official article but we could not found any information that mention that Audit are free for some days and rest is paid. We need to narrow down it and so for that request you to please kindly provide entire screenshot of this message, details about from where client is running audit logs and which kind of activity are trying to retrieve from audit logs. Further please let us know from where your client purchased Office 365 subscription (such as directly from Microsoft or from partner)?

Regards,

Ankita Vaidya

Answer 4

Thank ankita for the response.

Is there any limitation on how many days data can be retrieved , i mean when my client is trying to retrieve data its saying 7 days available rest is paid. is it that its a paid service if we want entire 90 days data for business basic and business standard client?

My prime concern is how much data can be retrieved free of cost.

Regards

Anamika

Answer 5

Hello Anamika MukherjeeID,

Thanks for your post in Microsoft community.

Microsoft365 Business basic and Microsoft365 Business standard have basic audit feature and are retained for 90days. Only Office365 E5 subscription includes Advanced Audit and that audit logs are retained for up to one year. Once report generated, we have to export and download the result at the same time. To check a list of Office 365 and Microsoft 365 subscriptions that support unified audit logging, please kindly check the security and compliance center service description.

For your ready reference, here sharing summary screenshot, please kindly check it.

To check Audit log search related all information (such as SharePoint and OneDrive), please kindly check our official article Search the audit log in the compliance center.

Thank you so much for your precious time.

Regards,

Ankita Vaidya