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Get directoryAudit

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Get a specific Microsoft Entra audit log item. This includes an audit log item generated by various services within Microsoft Entra ID like user, application, device and group management, privileged identity management (PIM), access reviews, terms of use, identity protection, password management (self-service and admin password resets), self-service group management, and so on.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service US Government L4 US Government L5 (DOD) China operated by 21Vianet

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) AuditLog.Read.All and Directory.Read.All Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application AuditLog.Read.All and Directory.Read.All Not available.

Important

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with a supported role permission. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation:

  • Reports Reader
  • Security Administrator
  • Security Reader

HTTP request

GET /auditLogs/directoryAudits/{id}

Optional query parameters

This method doesn't support any OData query parameters to help customize the response. For general information, see OData query parameters.

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and directoryAudit object in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/auditLogs/directoryAudits/{id}

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#auditlogs/directoryaudits",
  "value": [{
        "id": "id",
        "category": "UserManagement",
        "correlationId": "da159bfb-54fa-4092-8a38-6e1fa7870e30",
        "result": "success",
        "resultReason": "Successfully added member to group",
        "activityDisplayName": "Add member to group",
        "activityDateTime": "2018-01-09T21:20:02.7215374Z",
        "loggedByService": "Core Directory",
        "initiatedBy": {
            "user": {
                "id": "728309ae-1a37-4937-9afe-e35d964db09b",
                "displayName": "Audry Oliver",
                "userPrincipalName": "bob@wingtiptoysonline.com",
                "ipAddress": "127.0.0.1"
            },
            "app": null
        },
        "targetResource": [{
            "id": "ef7e527d-6c92-4234-8c6d-cf6fdfb57f95",
            "displayName": "Example.com",
            "Type": "Group",
            "modifiedProperties": [{
                "displayName": "Action Client Name",
                "oldValue": null,
                "newValue": "DirectorySync" 
            }],
            "groupType": "unifiedGroups"
        }, {
            "id": "1f0e98f5-3161-4c6b-9b50-d488572f2bb7",
            "displayName": null,
            "Type": "User",
            "modifiedProperties": [],
            "userPrincipalName": "example@contoso.com"
        }],
        "additionalDetails": [{
            "key": "Additional Detail Name",
            "value": "Additional Detail Value"
        }]
    }]
}