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title: Audit Logs
description: Review audit logs for configuration changes made to your R2 buckets.
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# Audit Logs

[Audit logs](https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/account/account-security/review-audit-logs/) provide a comprehensive summary of changes made within your Cloudflare account, including those made to R2 buckets. This functionality is available on all plan types, free of charge, and is always enabled.

## Viewing audit logs

To view audit logs for your R2 buckets, go to the **Audit logs** page.

[ Go to **Audit logs** ](https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/audit-log) 

For more information on how to access and use audit logs, refer to [Review audit logs](https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/account/account-security/review-audit-logs/).

## Logged operations

The following configuration actions are logged:

| Operation                          | Description                                                        |
| ---------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| CreateBucket                       | Creation of a new bucket.                                          |
| DeleteBucket                       | Deletion of an existing bucket.                                    |
| AddCustomDomain                    | Addition of a custom domain to a bucket.                           |
| RemoveCustomDomain                 | Removal of a custom domain from a bucket.                          |
| ChangeBucketVisibility             | Change to the managed public access (r2.dev) settings of a bucket. |
| PutBucketStorageClass              | Change to the default storage class of a bucket.                   |
| PutBucketLifecycleConfiguration    | Change to the object lifecycle configuration of a bucket.          |
| DeleteBucketLifecycleConfiguration | Deletion of the object lifecycle configuration for a bucket.       |
| PutBucketCors                      | Change to the CORS configuration for a bucket.                     |
| DeleteBucketCors                   | Deletion of the CORS configuration for a bucket.                   |

Note

Logs for data access operations, such as `GetObject` and `PutObject`, are not included in audit logs. To log HTTP requests made to public R2 buckets, use the [HTTP requests](https://developers.cloudflare.com/logs/logpush/logpush-job/datasets/zone/http%5Frequests/) Logpush dataset.

## Example log entry

Below is an example of an audit log entry showing the creation of a new bucket:

```

{

  "action": { "info": "CreateBucket", "result": true, "type": "create" },

  "actor": {

    "email": "<ACTOR_EMAIL>",

    "id": "3f7b730e625b975bc1231234cfbec091",

    "ip": "fe32:43ed:12b5:526::1d2:13",

    "type": "user"

  },

  "id": "5eaeb6be-1234-406a-87ab-1971adc1234c",

  "interface": "API",

  "metadata": { "zone_name": "r2.cloudflarestorage.com" },

  "newValue": "",

  "newValueJson": {},

  "oldValue": "",

  "oldValueJson": {},

  "owner": { "id": "1234d848c0b9e484dfc37ec392b5fa8a" },

  "resource": { "id": "my-bucket", "type": "r2.bucket" },

  "when": "2024-07-15T16:32:52.412Z"

}


```

```json
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```