What’s changing
Google Workspace audit logs enable admins to have visibility into activity on their data, such as file shares and downloads, when it occurred, and who within the organization performed the action. The Google Drive audit events include activity on content your users create in Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, as well as the files that your users upload to Drive, such as PDFs and Microsoft Word files.
Today, we’re excited to announce that for admins who analyze these logs in BigQuery, these events are now enriched with Drive labels metadata. Admins leverage Drive labels to apply descriptive metadata, such as file sensitivity, to Drive items. With the enrichment of label metadata on log events, admins can now focus their analysis on activity occurring on their most important files by filtering on label conditions.
Getting started
Admins: Visit the Help Center to learn how to set up service log exports to BigQuery. End users: There is no end user setting for this feature.
Rollout pace
This feature is available now.
Availability
Available to Enterprise Essentials Plus, Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus, Education Standard and Education Plus
Resources
Google Workspace Admin Help: Get started as a Drive labels admin Google Workspace Updates Blog: Programmatically manage and apply Drive Labels using new API functionality Google Workspace Updates Blog: Set default label values for files in Google Drive Google Workspace Updates Blog: Export log data in near-real time to BigQuery