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.

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.

HTTP

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

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.AuditLogs.DirectoryAudits["{directoryAudit-id}"].GetAsync();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc audit-logs directory-audits get --directory-audit-id {directoryAudit-id}

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
directoryAudits, err := graphClient.AuditLogs().DirectoryAudits().ByDirectoryAuditId("directoryAudit-id").Get(context.Background(), nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

DirectoryAudit result = graphClient.auditLogs().directoryAudits().byDirectoryAuditId("{directoryAudit-id}").get();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let directoryAudit = await client.api('/auditLogs/directoryAudits/{id}')
	.get();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$result = $graphServiceClient->auditLogs()->directoryAudits()->byDirectoryAuditId('directoryAudit-id')->get()->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Reports

Get-MgAuditLogDirectoryAudit -DirectoryAuditId $directoryAuditId

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.audit_logs.directory_audits.by_directory_audit_id('directoryAudit-id').get()

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

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"
        }]
    }]
}