If you're a Dropbox Business admin, you can view an audit of your team's activity. These audit logs can help admins:

• See how often Dropbox Business is being used, who's using it, and for what
• Investigate and fix issues (like accidental file deletions)

What can I see on audit logs?

Audit logs can show you several pieces of information about member actions. Each entry in the log shows:

• Date and time: The exact date and time that an activity took place
• Member: The member that initiated the activity
• Activity: The details of the activity itself
• Location: The location from which the user initiated the activity, and the IP address of the machine they were on

Which activities appear in audit logs?

The activity log allows you to view the following activities:

• Files: All file-related actions, including adding, editing, moving, and deleting files
• Sharing: All sharing-related actions, including sending a link to a file or joining a folder, or sharing a file or folder owned by a team member
• Passwords: A team member changes their password or two-step verification settings
• Groups: An admin creates a group or adjusts the membership of a group
• Membership: Someone joins the team or is removed from the team
• Sign-ins: A team member signs in or fails to sign in to dropbox.com
• Admin actions: You or another admin change settings in the admin console, such as shared folder permissions
• Apps: A team member links a third-party app to their Dropbox account
• Devices: A team member links a computer or mobile device to their Dropbox account
• Paper: All Paper-related actions, including sharing Paper docs owned by team members and team-wide Paper settings.

Access and filter the activity log

You can filter the activity on your team to see the types of activity you're interested in.

1. Sign in to dropbox.com using your admin account.
2. Click Admin Console.
3. Click the Activity tab.
4. Enter any relevant information to filter results.
5. Click Create report.

Notes on filtering:

• By activity: Use the Browse activities pull-down menu to filter the list by a specific activity type
• By specific period: Enter a specific date range in the Date field to see activities that took place during a specific time period
• By member: To view recent activity of a specific team member, click Members and then enter the team member's name
• By file or folder: Searching by keyword will scan file or folder names, or the location where they were saved

Exporting

You can also export the results of a filtered view. Specifically, you can:

• Copy-and-paste filtered results into Excel
• Send a URL of the filtered results to another admin
• Click on a specific activity and add it as a filter for future use

Note: filtered results are not truncated in your browser. This means that you can continually scroll in your browser to see older activities.

How long does it take for activities to appear in the audit logs?

Generally, team member activities appear in audit logs in a few hours. At most, activities will appear within twenty-four hours.

Who can create activity audits?

Activity audits are available to team admins and user management admins.

Learn more about Dropbox Business tiered admins.

How do I use activity audits to find deleted files?

There are two things to consider when searching for a deleted file:

• The name of the file
• The folder in which the file was located

If an individual file is deleted, simply search for that file's name. If you've tried searching for an individual file but can't find it, consider if the file was located in a deleted folder.

Deleting a folder will also delete all of the files in it. However, the names of these individual deleted files won't appear in activity audits—only the folder name will.

To find a file that had been located in a deleted folder, search for the folder path name in the activity audit. For example: /Marketing/2016/03/01/Project_1.docx.

View activity in the admin dashboard

The admin dashboard provides overall usage stats, such as the number of active members, the number of shared links created, and the number of active devices.

Learn more about the admin dashboard.

Sign in to the accounts of your team members

Dropbox Business team admins can sign in to the accounts of team members with the sign in as user feature. If you're a team admin, you can access the Business accounts of team members to do the following:

• View a team member's folder structure
• Share files and folders with others
• View, open, and download files
• Delete files, or restore deleted files

Note: For team members who have connected personal and work Dropbox accounts, sign in as user does not allow team admins to access Dropbox personal accounts in any way. Only Business accounts are accessible to admins.