Analyze Audit Events on the Activity Auditing Dashboard

You can view and analyze auditing activity from the Activity Auditing dashboard. By default, the dashboard shows you audit events for the past one week.

View and Filter the Activity Auditing Dashboard

You can filter data displayed on the Activity Auditing dashboard by compartment, time period, and/or target database.

  1. Under Data Safe - Database Security, select Activity auditing.
    The Activity Auditing dashboard is displayed.
  2. (Optional) Under Applied filters, select the compartment that contains your target database. Optionally select Include child compartments to include target database in the list from child compartments.
  3. From the Time Period drop-down list, select the time period for the audit events.
    If you select Date Range, specify the beginning (Time From Month) and end (Time To Month) months.
  4. Click Add filters to apply filters for target databases and target database groups.
    Only target databases that are contained in the compartment (and child compartments if you selected the option) are listed.
  5. View the Failed Login Activity, Admin Activity, and All Activity charts.
  6. View the Events Summary and Targets Summary tabs.

Analyze Audit Event Data

  1. Under Data Safe - Database Security, select Activity auditing.
    The Activity Auditing dashboard is displayed.
  2. Filter the dashboard as needed.
  3. To view more detail for an audit event, on the Events Summary tab, click an event category.
    The Event Category page is displayed showing you a report for the audit event.
  4. To view more detail for a target database, on the Targets Summary tab, click a target database.
  5. At the top of the page, view the filters that are currently applied to the data.
    These filters are the same as those that were applied to the dashboard.
    You can modify, remove, and add filters as needed.
  6. In the table at the bottom of the page, view the list of audit events.