Audit log

What is an audit log?

An audit log is a record of activity and performance in a Metabase, available to admins in some Metabase plans. Audit logs give admins an overview of how people are interacting with their Metabase — which questions are most popular, who’s looking at which dashboards, what alerts people have set up, and others.

Example audit log

Figure 1 shows an example audit log page, found in the Admin panel > Audit section:

The charts show which questions are most popular and which take the longest to load; identifying which questions and dashboards are slowest to load can help inform changes that you may want to make, like adjusting your cache settings or optimizing SQL queries.

What can audit logs tell you?

Audit logs contain info about:

• How team members are using Metabase
• Databases you’ve connected to Metabase
• Questions that people are asking and viewing
• Dashboard popularity and performance
• Data that people are downloading and exporting

Key article

• Auditing your users and data

Further reading

• Audit logs documentation
• Admin overview
• Managing people in Metabase