--- schema_version: "1" id: 7ac9a09fb4f72a58697df43f67aa53291d42de2bac2289ac9a6268d3ad0d9a19 title: Activity Log collection: tableau version: next locale: en-gb portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/tableau/next/en-gb/server/activity_log_overview.md canonical_url: https://help.tableau.com/v0.0/server/en-gb/activity_log_overview.htm source_site: help.tableau.com content_type: documentation content_hash: ae5751aab19419d4e8d66ee9a1511da3ce3721b34d9f0fad38b7bad2057ecb74 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/v0.0/server/en-gb/activity_log_schema.htm). ## Other articles in this section