Essential Contacts audit logging

This document describes audit logging for Essential Contacts. Google Cloud services write audit logs that record administrative activities and accesses within your Google Cloud resources. For more information, see Cloud Audit Logs overview.

Service name

Essential Contacts audit logs use the service name essentialcontacts.googleapis.com.

Methods by permission type

Methods that check DATA_READ, DATA_WRITE, and ADMIN_READ permission types generate Data Access audit logs. Methods that check ADMIN_WRITE permission types generate Admin Activity audit logs.

Permission type Methods
DATA_READ google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1.EssentialContactsService.ComputeContacts
google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1.EssentialContactsService.GetContact
google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1.EssentialContactsService.ListContacts
google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1alpha1.EssentialContactsService.ComputeContacts
google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1beta1.EssentialContactsService.ComputeContacts
google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1beta1.EssentialContactsService.GetContact
DATA_WRITE google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1.EssentialContactsService.CreateContact
google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1.EssentialContactsService.DeleteContact
google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1.EssentialContactsService.UpdateContact
google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1beta1.EssentialContactsService.CreateContact
google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1beta1.EssentialContactsService.DeleteContact
google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1beta1.EssentialContactsService.SendTestMessage
google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1beta1.EssentialContactsService.UpdateContact

Audit logs per API interface

For more information about which permissions are evaluated for each method, see the Identity and Access Management documentation for Essential Contacts.

google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1.EssentialContactsService

The following section contains details about audit logs associated with methods belonging to google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1.EssentialContactsService.

google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1.EssentialContactsService.ComputeContacts

  • Method: google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1.EssentialContactsService.ComputeContacts
  • Audit log Type: Data access
  • Permissions:
    • essentialcontacts.contacts.get - DATA_READ
    • essentialcontacts.contacts.list - DATA_READ
  • Method is a long running or streaming operation: No.
  • Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1.EssentialContactsService.ComputeContacts"

google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1.EssentialContactsService.CreateContact

  • Method: google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1.EssentialContactsService.CreateContact
  • Audit log Type: Data access
  • Permissions:
    • essentialcontacts.contacts.create - DATA_WRITE
  • Method is a long running or streaming operation: No.
  • Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1.EssentialContactsService.CreateContact"

google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1.EssentialContactsService.DeleteContact

  • Method: google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1.EssentialContactsService.DeleteContact
  • Audit log Type: Data access
  • Permissions:
    • essentialcontacts.contacts.delete - DATA_WRITE
  • Method is a long running or streaming operation: No.
  • Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1.EssentialContactsService.DeleteContact"

google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1.EssentialContactsService.GetContact

  • Method: google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1.EssentialContactsService.GetContact
  • Audit log Type: Data access
  • Permissions:
    • essentialcontacts.contacts.get - DATA_READ
  • Method is a long running or streaming operation: No.
  • Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1.EssentialContactsService.GetContact"

google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1.EssentialContactsService.ListContacts

  • Method: google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1.EssentialContactsService.ListContacts
  • Audit log Type: Data access
  • Permissions:
    • essentialcontacts.contacts.list - DATA_READ
  • Method is a long running or streaming operation: No.
  • Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1.EssentialContactsService.ListContacts"

google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1.EssentialContactsService.UpdateContact

  • Method: google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1.EssentialContactsService.UpdateContact
  • Audit log Type: Data access
  • Permissions:
    • essentialcontacts.contacts.update - DATA_WRITE
  • Method is a long running or streaming operation: No.
  • Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1.EssentialContactsService.UpdateContact"

google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1alpha1.EssentialContactsService

The following section contains details about audit logs associated with methods belonging to google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1alpha1.EssentialContactsService.

google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1alpha1.EssentialContactsService.ComputeContacts

  • Method: google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1alpha1.EssentialContactsService.ComputeContacts
  • Audit log Type: Data access
  • Permissions:
    • essentialcontacts.contacts.list - DATA_READ
  • Method is a long running or streaming operation: No.
  • Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1alpha1.EssentialContactsService.ComputeContacts"

google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1beta1.EssentialContactsService

The following section contains details about audit logs associated with methods belonging to google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1beta1.EssentialContactsService.

google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1beta1.EssentialContactsService.ComputeContacts

  • Method: google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1beta1.EssentialContactsService.ComputeContacts
  • Audit log Type: Data access
  • Permissions:
    • essentialcontacts.contacts.get - DATA_READ
    • essentialcontacts.contacts.list - DATA_READ
  • Method is a long running or streaming operation: No.
  • Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1beta1.EssentialContactsService.ComputeContacts"

google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1beta1.EssentialContactsService.CreateContact

  • Method: google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1beta1.EssentialContactsService.CreateContact
  • Audit log Type: Data access
  • Permissions:
    • essentialcontacts.contacts.create - DATA_WRITE
  • Method is a long running or streaming operation: No.
  • Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1beta1.EssentialContactsService.CreateContact"

google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1beta1.EssentialContactsService.DeleteContact

  • Method: google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1beta1.EssentialContactsService.DeleteContact
  • Audit log Type: Data access
  • Permissions:
    • essentialcontacts.contacts.delete - DATA_WRITE
  • Method is a long running or streaming operation: No.
  • Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1beta1.EssentialContactsService.DeleteContact"

google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1beta1.EssentialContactsService.GetContact

  • Method: google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1beta1.EssentialContactsService.GetContact
  • Audit log Type: Data access
  • Permissions:
    • essentialcontacts.contacts.get - DATA_READ
  • Method is a long running or streaming operation: No.
  • Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1beta1.EssentialContactsService.GetContact"

google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1beta1.EssentialContactsService.SendTestMessage

  • Method: google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1beta1.EssentialContactsService.SendTestMessage
  • Audit log Type: Data access
  • Permissions:
    • essentialcontacts.contacts.send - DATA_WRITE
  • Method is a long running or streaming operation: No.
  • Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1beta1.EssentialContactsService.SendTestMessage"

google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1beta1.EssentialContactsService.UpdateContact

  • Method: google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1beta1.EssentialContactsService.UpdateContact
  • Audit log Type: Data access
  • Permissions:
    • essentialcontacts.contacts.update - DATA_WRITE
  • Method is a long running or streaming operation: No.
  • Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1beta1.EssentialContactsService.UpdateContact"

Methods that don't produce audit logs

Generally methods don't produce audit logs because they are high volume and doing so would be very expensive to store, or because the method has low auditing value, or because another audit or platform log already provides coverage for what the method does.

The following methods don't produce audit logs:

  • google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1alpha1.EssentialContactsService.ResendVerification
  • google.cloud.essentialcontacts.v1alpha1.EssentialContactsService.VerifyContact