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# Use Audit Trail

A security admin user can view access and activity records from user tasks in Marketing Cloud Engagement.

To learn more, see [Audit Trail](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_overview_audit_trail.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "View Marketing Cloud Engagement access and activity records with Audit Trail. Pull Audit Trail records in Automation Studio data extracts or by using REST API. Analyze the information from Audit Trail in your preferred tools or archive it for later reference.").

1. [Create an Audit Trail Data Extract Activity](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_as_create_an_audit_trail_data_extract_activity.htm&language=en_US).
    
    This activity extracts your audit data to prepare it for file transfer.
2. Create a [File Transfer Activity](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_as_create_a_file_transfer_activity.htm&language=en_US).
    
    This activity transfers your audit data to the secure Safehouse, which you can access via Marketing Cloud Engagement FTP or Amazon S3.
3. [Create an Automation](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_as_define_a_scheduled_automation.htm&language=en_US).
    
    This automation runs the data extract and file extract activities. Next, it sends the data to your secure Marketing Cloud Engagement Safehouse and sends the audit trail to your FTP or S3 location.
    
    For Audit Trail API documentation, see [getSecurityEvents](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/marketing/marketing-cloud/references/mc_rest_audit?meta=getSecurityEvents) and [getAuditEvents](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/marketing/marketing-cloud/references/mc_rest_audit?meta=getAuditEvents).

#### See Also

- [Audit Trail](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_overview_audit_trail.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "View Marketing Cloud Engagement access and activity records with Audit Trail. Pull Audit Trail records in Automation Studio data extracts or by using REST API. Analyze the information from Audit Trail in your preferred tools or archive it for later reference.")