Get directoryAudit

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Get a specific Microsoft Entra audit log item. This includes an audit log item generated by various services within Microsoft Entra ID like user, application, device and group management, privileged identity management (PIM), access reviews, terms of use, identity protection, password management (self-service and admin password resets), self-service group management, and so on.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	✅

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	AuditLog.Read.All and Directory.Read.All	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	AuditLog.Read.All and Directory.Read.All	Not available.

Important

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with a supported role permission. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation:

• Reports Reader
• Security Administrator
• Security Reader

HTTP request

GET /auditLogs/directoryAudits/{id}

Optional query parameters

This method doesn't support any OData query parameters to help customize the response. For general information, see OData query parameters.

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and directoryAudit object in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/auditLogs/directoryAudits/{id}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.AuditLogs.DirectoryAudits["{directoryAudit-id}"].GetAsync();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc-beta audit-logs directory-audits get --directory-audit-id {directoryAudit-id}

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
directoryAudits, err := graphClient.AuditLogs().DirectoryAudits().ByDirectoryAuditId("directoryAudit-id").Get(context.Background(), nil)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

DirectoryAudit result = graphClient.auditLogs().directoryAudits().byDirectoryAuditId("{directoryAudit-id}").get();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let directoryAudit = await client.api('/auditLogs/directoryAudits/{id}')
	.version('beta')
	.get();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$result = $graphServiceClient->auditLogs()->directoryAudits()->byDirectoryAuditId('directoryAudit-id')->get()->wait();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Reports

Get-MgBetaAuditLogDirectoryAudit -DirectoryAuditId $directoryAuditId

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.audit_logs.directory_audits.by_directory_audit_id('directoryAudit-id').get()

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
    "id": "Directory_504a302a-8f2d-418d-b7df-bf77de6ed831_M1N6X_27777783",
    "category": "UserManagement",
    "correlationId": "504a302a-8f2d-418d-b7df-bf77de6ed831",
    "result": "success",
    "resultReason": "",
    "activityDisplayName": "Update user",
    "activityDateTime": "2022-06-21T23:25:00.1458248Z",
    "loggedByService": "Core Directory",
    "operationType": "Update",
    "userAgent": null,
    "initiatedBy": {
        "app": null,
        "user": {
            "id": "2c940657-1026-4386-bcfd-3176637ba01f",
            "displayName": "Test Admin",
            "userPrincipalName": "tadmin@contoso.com",
            "ipAddress": "",
            "userType": "Member",
            "homeTenantId": null,
            "homeTenantName": null
        }
    },
    "targetResources": [
        {
            "id": "2c940657-1026-4386-bcfd-3176637ba01f",
            "displayName": "Test User",
            "type": "User",
            "userPrincipalName": "tuser@contoso.com",
            "groupType": null,
            "modifiedProperties": [
                {
                    "displayName": "StrongAuthenticationMethod",
                    "oldValue": "[{\"MethodType\":6,\"Default\":true},{\"MethodType\":7,\"Default\":false}]",
                    "newValue": "[{\"MethodType\":7,\"Default\":false},{\"MethodType\":6,\"Default\":true},{\"MethodType\":0,\"Default\":false},{\"MethodType\":5,\"Default\":false}]"
                },
                {
                    "displayName": "Included Updated Properties",
                    "oldValue": null,
                    "newValue": "\"StrongAuthenticationMethod\""
                },
                {
                    "displayName": "TargetId.UserType",
                    "oldValue": null,
                    "newValue": "\"Member\""
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "additionalDetails": [
        {
            "key": "UserType",
            "value": "Member"
        }
    ]
}