--- schema_version: "1" id: 482006049c8d7ccf3849f94bbcb060c49259e0771ed1ef0e314c0ca48ed47e40 title: Activity Log collection: tableau version: current locale: en-gb portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/tableau/current/en-gb/server/activity_log_overview.md canonical_url: https://help.tableau.com/current/server/en-gb/activity_log_overview.htm source_site: help.tableau.com content_type: documentation content_hash: e25d6b205c949d8a9c8545427beef3a44fb006f0763f0e4fdff48b64c8d96b85 description: Overview of Activity Log tenant and site events used to audit Tableau Cloud activity, with retention details. --- [Skip to main content](#main-content) # Activity Log If you have Tableau Server with Advanced Management, Activity Log files are automatically recorded for detailed analysis and auditing. Use these logs to: - **View and analyse event data:** Access detailed event data for Tableau Server, capturing compliance information and tracking activities across your sites. All events include a timestamp and the ID of the actor and, if relevant, the ID of the affected content. - **Audit permission changes:** Track and audit permission changes, such as adding or removing users from a group, moving content between projects and explicitly changing content permissions. This is essential for implementing robust controls for compliance purposes. - **Supplement Admin Views:** Enhance the information provided by Admin Views to track site activity and usage metrics. You can integrate Activity Log data with monitoring tools, such as Splunk or Amazon EventBridge, to query log fields and answer questions such as the last ten actions taken by a user, who last performed an event on content and what the last action on content was. ## Accessing Activity Log events Activity Log events are stored in the `vizportal` and `vizqlserver` folders on the local hard drive. By default, the folders are located at `%PROGRAMDATA%\Tableau\Tableau Server\data\tabsvc\logs\`. Within each directory, you’ll find files named `-cepp-canonical-events_*.log` that record events and operations for your deployment. For a full list of Activity Log events, see [Activity Log Site Event Type Reference](https://help.tableau.com/current/server/en-gb/activity_log_schema.htm). ## Other articles in this section