In-App Audit Logging

Viewing and exporting audit logs for compliance and oversight.

Default audit events

DekkoSecure automatically records Audit logs for key activities across your Tenancy, including file uploads, downloads, sharing events, eSignature actions, and messaging. Audit logs are available at three levels: individual content owners can view logs for their own files, Hub Admins can view logs for all activity within a Hub, and Tenancy Managers can view logs across all Hubs in the Tenancy.

Audit logs cannot be modified or deleted by any end users, including Tenancy admins. Logs for deleted content are persistent and are stored for the duration of your organisation’s agreement with DekkoSecure.

The following events are captured by default in audit logs:

Activity Events Logged
File sharing File uploaded (incl. file size)
File downloaded (incl. file size)
File viewed
File removed
File shared (with per-user permissions set)
Status tag change (added/changed/removed)
File collaboration File updated (versioned or edited)
eSignature workflow Markup placeholder added
Text added
Image added
Stamp added
Signature added
Document approved
Messaging (mail, chat) Message sent
Message received
Message read
Administration Hub invite sent
Hub invite accepted
User removed from Hub
Password reset

All audit events have an associated ID which corresponds with a file, message or Hub. For example, logged events associated with a file that has been uploaded, shared and downloaded will have a common ID, e.g. 08abba18-9c1c-4f22-9bc80-e46309bff268.

Example log:

User Event Event ID Date + time
[email protected] Upload complete (1.2GB) 08abba18-9c1c-4f22-9bc80-e46309bff268 10:25 3 Apr 2023

In the above example, the log relates to a file with ID 08abba18-9c1c-4f22-9bc80-e46309bff268. See the search guide below to filter logs by ID.


Please note that audit logs viewed in the DekkoSecure application do not contain:

  • File names
  • File content
  • Message subjects
  • Message content

Extended audit logging and logging integrations

To facilitate automated audit log reporting (including encrypted event data such as file names), the DekkoSecure web application must be integrated with a Security Information and Event Management system such as Microsoft Sentinel or Splunk.

DekkoSecure offers consultative services to enable log capture that can meet any compliance requirement, including managed service infrastructure that will prepare any logging information in a way that follows your own unique definition(s).

Please contact your DekkoSecure account manager to discuss extended logging and integration options. Note: custom audit logging features and functions are not included in the standard DekkoSecure service.

Accessing audit logs

You can access audit logs at three levels, depending on your role:

  • Content level: View logs for files you own as a user or co-administer. This includes sharing permissions, read and download receipts, and signature events for individual files.
  • Hub level: Hub Admins can view logs for all activity within a specific Hub.
  • Tenancy level: Tenancy Managers can view logs across all Hubs in a Tenancy, and can search logs by event type or content ID.

Content owner/co-admin

  1. Open the dropdown menu for the file and then select Details:

    Overflow menu for "Risk Report 2Q20 v2.pdf" open, with the Details option highlighted by a pink arrow.

  2. In the information panel press [View Logs]

    Details panel for a PDF in the Approvals Hub, with a pink arrow pointing to the black "View Logs" button.

The audit log will open. Press [Export] to download a CSV version of the log. To see previous versions of the file, select the File History tab.

Audit log dialog for "History of Risk Report 2Q20 v2.pdf" showing Logs and File history tabs, an Export button, and dated events with user emails.

Sharing Permission logs

When a file is shared, the audit log records the specific permission granted to each recipient. To view these details, press Details on the sharing log entry.

Audit log table showing a "Document shared" entry with its Details button highlighted by a pink arrow, plus the Users and Permissions panel listing each recipient's permission level.

Read, download and signature receipts

Actions in the Events and Status columns correspond with audit log entries.

Document downloaded:

Document list row for "Report # RR4-7189 (1).docx" showing the download icon with a "Melissa Stone" tooltip and a "Shared" status.

Document viewed:

Document list showing a file viewed by "Emily Moss" and "Melissa Stone" with an eye icon

Document signed:

Document list showing a file signed by Emily Moss, with the Signed status badge and a tooltip listing the signing timestamp and signer.

Hub Admin

If you want to view audit logs as a Hub Admin, press Contacts in the navigation panel (1), choose the Hub from the dropdown (2), select the Audit Logs tab (3), set the activity period (4) and then press [Load]:

Hub settings screen showing the numbered steps: Contacts in the sidebar, the Project A dropdown, Audit logs, the Start and End date fields, and the LOAD button.

The audit log will be loaded. Press [Export] to download a CSV version of the log.

Tenancy admin

If you want to view audit logs as a Tenancy admin, open the Tenancy Manager and press Audit logs in the navigation panel (1), choose the Hub from the dropdown (2), set the activity period (3) and then press [Refresh]:

Audit logs page with numbered steps: Audit logs in the sidebar (1), the Project A hub dropdown (2), the date range fields (3), and the Refresh button (4).

The audit log will be loaded. Press [Download as CSV] to download a CSV version of the log.

Example - ‘upload’:

Audit log search for "upload" in Project A, showing five "Upload complete" entries from demo@dekkosecure.com with file sizes and dates.

Example - content ID:

Searching by ID is the most effective way to view logs per-file.

Audit log results for content ID c18f11d6-6879-4695-843e, filtered to Project A between 01/05/2023 and 15/05/2023, showing user activity entries.
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