Vanta's Event Log shows a history of changes made within Vanta including administrative activities, data modification, and user logins. This will give admins within your Vanta account a detailed understanding of who did what and when actions occurred, giving you more visibility into activity within Vanta and assisting with:
Debugging and troubleshooting any issues caused by changes
Detecting compliance and security violations to reconstruct any breaches
Providing any legal compliance evidence
Accessing the Event Log
Click the user icon in the upper right corner of Vanta
Select Event log from the dropdown
The entire event log will appear, with the most recent event at the top, and can be filtered by:
Type: filter for actions taken by users in-app or by OAuth integrations
Source: filter by a specific user's actions
Action: filter by a particular activity that was taken within Vanta
Target: filter by the specific area an action would affect
Date Range: filter by a specific period of time
Event Logs are retained for at least 1 year from the event time stamp. This feature is not retroactive from the date the feature went live, October 28, 2022.
What events are listed in the event log?
People
Marking off-boarding complete
Assign users to a group
Creating a new user
Editing user details
Linking a user to the person in your HRIS
Unlinking a user to a person in your HRIS
Linking users to background checks
Marking users as not people
Marking users as people
Policies
Creating a new custom policy
Approving a policy
Renewing a policy
Adding a synced policy document
Uploading a new policy document
Updating a draft policy document
Deleting a draft policy document
Deleting an unapproved policy document
Requesting a user to approve a policy document
Canceling an approval request
Vulnerabilities
Acknowledging an SLA violation
Reopening a vulnerability
Ignoring a vulnerability
Integrations
Connecting integrations for the first time
Updating integrations
Deleting integrations
Tests
Assigning an owner to a test
Deactivating monitoring for a test
Reactivating monitoring for a test
Documents
Assigning an owner to evidence
Setting renewal cadence for evidence
Uploading a new document to evidence
Deleting a document from evidence
Login
Logging into Vanta