Administration Guide

Logs Reference

Reference for the 9 logs and task-history views in AlloyScan: 6 site-level views plus 3 global logs.

Scope

This page covers both:

  • Admin Center > Logs for one current Site
  • App management > Logs for instance-level visibility

Site-level logs

Located at Admin Center > Logs > *.

Audit log

Property Value
Scope Site
Path Admin Center > Logs > Audit
Columns Device/Resource, Task (link Audit #NNNNN), Start date, Scope, Initiator, Status
Retention 30 days

The Audit log supports export at two levels:

  • From the main grid, export all rows in CSV or XLSX format.
  • Open an Audit log entry to download it as a TXT file or export all device-level rows in CSV or XLSX format.

For a grouped audit, open the count in Scope to review child tasks and their Errors counts. Open a child task for its detailed log.

For an audit performed by an Audit Agent, click the Scope link to open the agent's properties.

Scan log

Property Value
Scope Site
Path Admin Center > Logs > Scan
Columns Task (link Scan #NNN), Start date, Scope, Initiator, Status
Retention 30 days

Open a Scan log entry to read its diagnostic messages.

Notifications log (Site)

Property Value
Scope Site
Path Admin Center > Logs > Notifications
Columns Queued, To, Subject, Status
Retention 30 days

Change log (Site)

Property Value
Scope Site
Path Admin Center > Logs > Change log
Columns Object, Entity, Change (Added / Modified / Deleted, color-coded), User, detail (eye-icon)
Retention 30 days

Security log (Site)

Property Value
Scope Site
Path Admin Center > Logs > Security log
Columns Event date, Event type (color-coded pill), Category, Severity (color-coded pill), Username/Client ID, Actor type
Retention 90 days

Remote tasks

Property Value
Scope Site
Path Admin Center > Logs > Remote tasks
Columns Task, Status, Agent host, Created, Requested by, Started, Completed, Details
Presets All; Completed (Succeeded); Failed (Failed, Expired, OutcomeUnknown)

This history records remote restart and agent-removal tasks. A Completed timestamp can remain empty for an unconfirmed removal.

History remains available after an agent registration is deleted. A new agent with the same host name does not inherit that history.

See Audit Agents Reference for remote-task statuses and removal behavior, or How to restart a computer through an Audit Agent for restart steps.

Global logs

Located at Admin Center > App management > Logs > *.

Notifications log (Global)

Property Value
Scope Instance (all Sites)
Path Admin Center > App management > Logs > Notifications
Columns Same as the per-Site Notifications log
Retention 30 days

Change log (Global)

Property Value
Scope Instance (all Sites)
Path Admin Center > App management > Logs > Change log
Columns Same as the per-Site Change log plus a Site column identifying the originating Site
Retention 30 days

Security log (Global)

Property Value
Scope Instance (all Sites)
Path Admin Center > App management > Logs > Security log
Columns Same as the per-Site Security log
Retention 90 days

Grid conventions

  • All log grids support column filter, sort, and pick.
  • Grids share the default 1000-row cap. Click Load all to override (performance-heavy on long histories).
  • Use the toolbar's filter to narrow by date range, Initiator, Status, or other column values.

Constraints

  • Not every configuration-plane action necessarily produces an entry in the Change log or Security log. Operational and service accounts can bypass entity metadata tracking.