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Activeboard: GCP Cloud Audit

Purpose

This Activeboard summarizes information about the most relevant fields contained in GPC Cloud Audit log entries related to GCP Services audited API calls for a selected period of time. It allows you to filter by main log entry fields (Resource Type, Project ID, Service Name, Principal - entity issuing API calls - and Caller IP). The Activeboard is divided into four sections:

  1. Overview

  2. Errors

  3. Data by Main Categories

  4. Data Table

Filters

Resource Type: Select input

Service: Text box input

Caller IP: Text box input

Project ID: Text box input

Principal: Text box input

Line Graphs Grouping Period: Select input

Overview

Total Number of Log Entries: Simple value widget

Log Entries by Type: Pie chart widget

Top 5 Most Active System Processes: Table widget

Log Entries by Top 3 Resources Locations: Column chart widget

Top 5 Log Entries by Severity: Pie chart widget

Top 5 Most Active Public IPv4’s: Table widget

Log Entries by Caller IP Location: Markers map widget

Top 7 Log Entries by Type & Severity Over Time: Line chart widget

Top 5 Most Active Users: Table widget

Top 5 Most Active Public IPv4’s: Table widget

Top 7 Most Active Service Accounts: Table widget

 

Errors

Top 5 Users with Error in Logged Actions: Table widget

Ok vs Error Log Entries: Pie chart widget

Top 5 SP’s with Error in Logged Actions: Table widget

Top 5 Public IPv4’s with Error in LA’s: Table widget

Top 5 Log Entries by Error Over Time: Line chart widget

Top 5 Log Entries by Error: Pie chart widget

Log Entries with Error: Simple value widget

Top 5 Public IPv4’s with Error in Logged Actions: Table widget

Top 5 Log Entries by Error Over Time: Line chart widget

Data by Main Categories

Top 5 Log Entries by Resource Types: Column chart widget

Top 5 Log Entries by Project ID Over Time: Area chart widget

Top 5 Log Entries by Method: Column chart widget

Top 5 Log Entries by Resource Type Over Time: Area chart widget

Top 5 Log Entries by Service: Column chart widget

Top 5 Log Entries by Method Over Time: Area chart widget

Top 5 Log Entries by Progect ID: Column chart widget

Top 5 Log Entries by Service Over Time: Area chart widget

 

Data table

Data Groupes by Main Categories: Table widget

 

 

Prerequisites

To use this Activeboard, you must have the following data sources available on your domain:

Open Activeboard

Once you have installed the Activeboard, you can use the Open button at the top right of the card in Exchange to access it and see the different widgets populated with the relevant data. You can also access the Activeboard area via the Navigation pane.

Data loading takes too long?

Sometimes some widgets take time to upload the data, it is possible to speed up the process by creating aggregation tasks. Refer to the Aggregation tasks article to learn how to do it.

Use Activeboard

After installing and opening the Activeboard, you can use its widgets to visualize and monitor data. To do this, each widget offers a variety of customization and visualization options. Refer to Using widgets and Using inputs to know them all.