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Events Overview (New Experience)

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💡 Still using the classic Drata experience? Refer to Event Tracking for the original UI.

The Events page provides a centralized audit trail of activity across the Drata platform. It records system actions, user activity, and automated events to support audit evidence, troubleshooting, and security oversight.


Why the Events page matters

The Events page helps you:

  • Maintain an immutable audit trail of platform activity

  • Demonstrate control operation and monitoring over time

  • Investigate changes made by users or automated processes

  • Provide auditors with verifiable system evidence

Events captured here often serve as direct audit evidence for control effectiveness.


View events

To open the Events page:

  1. Select Events.

  2. Review the event table, which displays:

    • User (or system process, such as Autopilot)

    • Timestamp

    • Category

    • Connection

    • Account ID / alias

    • Result

    • Type

    • Description


Filter events

Use Filter to narrow results by event category or event type. Filtering helps you quickly locate activity such as:

  • Autopilot updates

  • Connection-related changes

  • User updates

  • Automated test executions


Review raw event evidence

Some events include raw system responses that can be reviewed as evidence. Select the event to view the raw evidence and its JSON response.

If the JSON response is too large to display, you can download it instead.


Download event evidence

You can download event evidence at any time for audit purposes:

  • PDF: Includes the raw JSON response plus contextual event details

  • TXT: Includes only the raw JSON response

These files can be shared directly with auditors as proof of control operation.


Key behaviors to understand

  • Events are read-only and cannot be edited or deleted

  • System-generated activity (such as Autopilot) appears as the event user

  • Events represent point-in-time historical evidence

  • The Events page supports both monitoring tests and audit requests

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