Supported editions for this feature: Education Standard and Education Plus. Compare your edition
As your organization's administrator, you can use the security investigation tool to run searches related to Assignments log events, and to take action based on search results. For example, you can:
- Review common activities, such as whether a student has joined a course or submitted course work.
- Troubleshoot common user scenarios.
Run a search for Assignments log events
Your ability to run a search depends on your Google edition, your administrative privileges, and the data source. You can run a search on all users, regardless of their Google Workspace edition.
To run a search in the security investigation tool, first choose a data source. Then, choose one or more conditions for your search. For each condition, choose an attribute , an operator , and a value .
- Sign in with an administrator account to the Google Admin console.
If you aren’t using an administrator account, you can’t access the Admin console.
- Go to Menu Security > Security center > Investigation tool .
Requires having the Security center administrator privilege.
- Click Data sourceand select Assignments log events.
- Click Add Condition.
Tip: You can include one or more conditions in your search or customize your search with nested queries . For details, go to Customize your search with nested queries . - Click Attributeselect an option.
For a complete list of attributes, go to the Attribute descriptions section. - Select an operator.
- Enter a value or select a value from the list.
- (Optional) To add more search conditions, repeat steps 4–7.
- Click Search.
You can review the search results from the investigation tool in a table at the bottom of the page. - (Optional) To save your investigation, click Save enter a title and descriptionclick Save.
Notes
- In the Condition builder tab, filters are represented as conditions with AND/OR operators. You can also use the Filter tab to include simple parameter and value pairs to filter the search results.
- If you give a user a new name, you will not see query results with the user's old name. For example, if you rename OldName@example.com to NewName@example.com , you will not see results for events related to OldName@example.com .
Attribute descriptions
For this data source, you can use the following attributes when searching log event data:
The group name of the actor. For more information, go to Filtering results by Google Group .
To add a group to your filtering groups allowlist:
- Select Actor group name.
- Click Filtering groups.
The Filtering groups page appears. - Click Add Groups.
- Search for a group by entering the first few characters of its name or email address. When you see the group you want, select it.
- (Optional) To add another group, search for and select the group.
- When you finish selecting groups, click Add.
- (Optional) To remove a group, click Remove group.
- Click Save.
Filter data by course events
To see data related to course membership, course events, or course work, filter by event and then select an event value.
- Sign in with an administrator account to the Google Admin console.
If you aren’t using an administrator account, you can’t access the Admin console.
- Go to Menu Security > Security center > Investigation tool .
Requires having the Security center administrator privilege.
- Click Data sourceselect Assignments log events.
- Click Add Condition.
- Click Attributeselect Event.
- Select an operator.
- Enter a value
- Click Search.
You can review the search results from the investigation tool in a table at the bottom of the page.
- You can set up alerts based on log event data using reporting rules. For instructions, go to Create and manage reporting rules .
- Supported editions for this feature: Frontline Standard
and Frontline Plus
; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus
; Education Standard and Education Plus; Enterprise Essentials Plus; Cloud Identity Premium. Compare your edition
To help prevent, detect, and remediate security issues efficiently, you can automate actions in the security investigation tool and set up alerts by creating activity rules . To set up a rule, set up conditions for the rule, and then specify the actions to perform when the conditions are met. For more details, go to Create and manage activity rules .
Supported editions for this feature: Frontline Standard and Frontline Plus ; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus ; Education Standard and Education Plus; Enterprise Essentials Plus; Cloud Identity Premium. Compare your edition
After you run a search in the security investigation tool, you can act on your search results. For example, you can run a search based on Gmail log events, and then use the tool to delete specific messages, send messages to quarantine, or send messages to users' inboxes. For more details, go to Take action based on search results .
