Auditing moderator/admin activity associated with user data

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Hello!

I’m looking for any and all information about how we might audit moderator & admin activity associated with user data (in particular, email and IP Address). I believe there are at least 2 activities to consider here (but interested to understand if there are others):

  1. show email/ip address via User Admin
  2. exporting a list of users (which would include these 2 fields).

My question is: is there any auditing/logging for these 2 activities (and other relevant actions)? I’ve found Staff Activities perhaps covers the first one (are there other/better sources?), but having trouble finding audit data on the second.

Thanks in advance!

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  1. data explorer queries
  2. taking a backup and inspecting it offline

But - if you cannot not trust your moderators, you have a way bigger problem than this.

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Thanks for the quick reply.

Trust and audit requirements are 2 different things :slight_smile:

Any guidance on the queries to run? I’ve found that the the user_exports table is unfortunately empty (I’m guessing rows are purged here after some time?).

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This will create an entry on the Staff Actions page. The action will be set to “export entity” and the subject set to what was exported, for example, “user_list” or “user_archive.”

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Heres the link to that /admin/logs/staff_action_logs?filters={"action_name"%3A"entity_export"%2C"action_id"%3A66%2C"subject"%3A"user_list"}

There is a possibility that the list of users were never exported meaning that would be empty. Never delved deep into the data explorer so not sure

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Given the possibility (at least for an admin) to backup/restore, which allows for inspecting the database and erasing any traces offline, an audit will never give you a complete picture and maybe even a false sense of security.

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