You can track user console and API actions by examining the system audit events that VMware Data Services Manager generates. VMware Data Services Manager also generates audit events for actions that it initiates. You monitor these events in the System Audit Events view.
The System Audit Events view displays the following information:
System
(VMware Data Services Manager-initiated).VMware Data Services Manager displays one of the following types of Source for the audit events listed in the System Audit Events view.
VMware Data Services Manager allows you to export information about the audit events in the CSV and XLSX file format. You can perform various operations, comparisons, and analysis on the exported data to facilitate decisions, for example, frequency of a particular operation.
The following information is exported in the CSV or XSLX file format, as required:
Information about all the audit events that is visible to a particular user is exported irrespective of the number of audit events listed on a page.
Perform the following steps to export information about the audit events in the CSV and XLSX file format:
Navigate to System Audit at the left of the UI.
Click the ACTIONS drop-down menu in the top right side of the System Audit Events view, and then select Export to CSV or Export to XLSX.
The information about all the audit events is exported in either CSV or XLSX file format, as selected.
Open the exported file, convert the content of the Date column to a custom format (if you have downloaded a CSV file and opened it in an XLSX application), and then save it for further use and analysis.