Vantage Launches Audit Logs for Tracking Platform Changes

Today, Vantage is launching Audit Logs for actions taken on the Vantage platform, providing customers with a traceable history of events happening through the Vantage Console, API, and Terraform Provider. With this launch, users can now view a complete log of create, update, and destroy events for Virtual Tags and Cost Reports.

Audit Logs for Cost Reports and Virtual Tags are now available within Settings

Previously, customers had no visibility into who modified Virtual Tag configurations or adjusted settings of saved Cost Reports, leaving teams unaware of changes when troubleshooting unexpected results or reconciling reports. Teams often had to resort to tribal knowledge or contact Vantage Support for insights into what changes occurred and who triggered the event.

Now, with Audit Logs, every interaction is recorded and queryable for reconciliation, starting with Virtual Tags and Cost Reports. Customers can view their Audit Logs within a new section of the Settings portion of the Console. All create, update, and destroy events for Cost Reports and Virtual Tags will be present in the logs. The logs can also be filtered based on event type (create, update, destroy), user, date, object type (Cost Report or Virtual Tag), and source (Vantage Console or API). Users can also directly access Audit Logs for a Cost Report or Virtual Tag to be brought to an Audit Log filtered for that resource.

Audit Logs are available today and visible to all users with the “Owner” role. To get started, visit the Audit Logs page in Settings. For details on how to retrieve and interpret logs, visit the Audit Logs documentation.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is being launched today?

Vantage is launching Audit Logs for Virtual Tags and Cost Reports, allowing customers to track all create, update, and destroy events.

2. Who is the customer?

Any Vantage customer with the “Owner” role can view Audit Logs. Events are logged for Virtual Tags and Cost Reports, no matter the role of the user performing the action.

3. How much does this cost?

Audit Logs are available at no additional cost.

4. How do I view my Audit Logs?

Audit Logs are available via the Settings page in the Vantage console, where you can view your Audit Logs across all Vantage workspaces and objects. Clicking on a log event will bring you to the log detail page, where you can view the full log event.

5. What attributes can I filter for when viewing my list of log events?

When viewing, you can choose to filter by Event (Create, Update, Destroy), Object Type (Virtual Tag or Cost Report), Object (Name of Virtual Tag or Cost Report), Workspace, User, Source (API or Console), and time.

6. What information does each log entry include?

Each entry includes:

• Timestamp
• Affected object name
• Action performed (create, update, destroy)
• Object type (e.g., Virtual Tag or Cost Report)
• Vantage workspace name the event occurred in
• Name of the User that performed the action (note: if using a Service Token, the Team Name will be displayed that the Service Token is assigned to)
• User Role
• Event Source (e.g. Vantage Console or API)
• Event metadata such as changes in fields or error responses
  • CREATE event - full VQL of the definition of the object being created
  • UPDATE event - a dedicated section highlighting the altered fields of the VQL definition of the object being updated, as well as all other fields not impacted
  • DESTROY - the definition of the object that was deleted

7. Are Audit Logs available via the API?

API support will be available soon.

8. How far back are my Audit Logs available?

Audit Logs are made available for events starting on July 22, 2025.

9. How long are logs retained?

Logs are retained for 24 months. For longer log retention, please contact support@vantage.sh.

10. Will Audit Logs be available for other Vantage features?

Yes, Audit Logs will be made available for other features in the future, such as Dashboards, Integrations, Cost Report Downloads, and more.

11. Can I revert to period points in time that are represented in the Audit Log?

No, Audit Logs are used for reference purpose only and cannot have state restored. You can use attributes to recreate any deleted object.

12. Can individual log events be shared?

Yes, each log detail page has a unique URL that allows you to share log events with any authenticated Vantage user that has access to Audit Logs (Owner role).

13. If I submit a PUT API request to update a Cost Report or Virtual Tag that does not have any differences to the existing configuration, will it create an Audit Log?

No, any Update events that have no changes will be filtered out from the UI in order to avoid unnecessary events.

14. If I create an event via Vantage’s Terraform Provider, how will this show in the Audit Log?

Events originating from Terraform will be logged as “API” for the source.

15. What happens if Vantage Support makes a change in my account?

Any actions taken by Vantage Support will be denoted in the User field as “Vantage Support”.