Cost Management Tool Audit – DataSet Customer Portal

Introduction

This article was written to assist customers who want to see who has enabled or disabled discard rules in a particular timeframe via the Cost Management Tool.

In order to help Identify when and who altered the status of a discard rule, you can run the following search for a specific period of time:

tag='audit' action='updateFilter'

In my screenshot below I ran the query for a few days time you’ll notice I have several log lines.

So how do I tell if a discard filter has been enabled or disabled?

If filterRequest.disabledUntil is "1970-01-01 ..." the discard rule was enabled.

If filterRequest.disabledUntil is null, the discard rule was disabled.

If filterRequest.disabledUntil is a date other than 1970-01-01, you temporarily disabled the discard rule until a time in the future (when it is automatically reenabled).

Notice what happens when I click on the log lines below. In Screenshot 1 is my discard filter enabled or disabled?

Screenshot 1

Screenshot 2

What about in Screenshot 2?

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If you guessed in Screenshot 1 the discard filter is enabled and in Screenshot 2 it is disabled that is correct!

You can also click on the eyelet on the left-hand side of the filter.Request.filterValue field to view the name of the filter that was enabled or disabled.

Introduction

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