Collect security logs
ThoughtSpot Cloud provides security audit events related to account activities and user actions within ThoughtSpot. These events can help your SOC team detect potential security threats or compromised user accounts in your organization.
How to fetch security events
To fetch security events from ThoughtSpot, you can push the logs to your SIEM server, or pull the logs using the Audit Logs API.
Push to your SIEM server
ThoughtSpot’s human-readable and comprehensive events can be shipped to your SIEM application in near real-time. Security events remain within the system for 30 days. To integrate with your SIEM or view these logs, contact ThoughtSpot Support.
ThoughtSpot also supports log ingestion to the customer SIEM system. We support multiple output plugins which can be configured to push the security audit events to the configured destination SIEM server at an interval of every 5 seconds.
ThoughtSpot supports the following output plugin options:
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HTTP
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Splunk
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Azure Log Analytics
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Datadog
Pull via Audit Logs API
The ThoughtSpot log API service allows you to programmatically get security audit events from the ThoughtSpot system. To use this API, make sure you have admin user privileges.
For more information, see Audit logs API.
ThoughtSpot security events
ThoughtSpot security events include the following information:
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An event ID
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A unique description of the event (for example, “A user account was created”)
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Timestamp (in UTC) yyyy/mm/dd:hh:mm:ss
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User ID of the person initiating the event
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public IP of the system from which the request originates
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Fields specific to the event (for example, name of the new account)
The create, update, and delete events for Models are also used for Worksheets.
Event descriptions
ThoughtSpot defines these events as follows:
- ACCOUNT_LOCKED
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A local user fails to authenticate x times in a row, locking the account. Administrators can configure the number of authentication attempts before lockout within ThoughtSpot.
- AUTH_TOKEN_CREATED_SUCCESSFULLY
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Auth token creation succeeds.
- CREATE_ANSWER
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A user attempts to create a new Answer.
- CREATE_CONNECTION
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Connection created.
- CREATE_CONNECTION_ATTEMPTED
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Create connection attempted.
- CREATE_RELATIONSHIP
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A user attempts to create a join, including join properties of type and cardinality.
- CREATE_PINBOARD
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A user attempts to create a Liveboard.
- CREATE_MODEL
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A user attempts to create a Model or Worksheet.
- CREATE_RLS_RULE
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A user creates an RLS (row-level-security) rule on a table.
- CREATE_TABLES
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A user attempts to create a new table.
- CREATE_VIEW
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A user attempts to create a new view.
- CSV_UPLOAD_FINISHED
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CSV upload finishes.
- CSV_UPLOAD_STARTED
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CSV upload starts.
- DATA_UPLOAD_CONFIGURED
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Data upload configured for a connection.
- DELETE_ANSWERS
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A user attempts to delete an Answer.
- DELETE_CONNECTION
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A user deletes a Connection.
- DELETE_CONNECTION_ATTEMPTED
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A user attempts to delete a Connection.
- DELETE_RELATIONSHIP
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A user attempts to delete a join.
- DELETE_MODEL
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A user attempts to delete a Model or Worksheet.
- DELETE_PINBOARDS
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A user attempts to delete a Liveboard.
- DELETE_RLS_RULES
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A user deletes an RLS rule on a table.
- DELETE_VIEW
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A user deletes a view.
- EDIT_CONNECTION
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Connection edited.
- EDIT_CONNECTION_ATTEMPTED
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Connection edit attempted.
- FAILED_TO_CREATE_AUTH_TOKEN
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Auth token creation fails.
- LOGIN_FAILED
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A user fails to log in due to an incorrect password, or IDP/ADP deny the authentication request.
- LOGIN_SUCCESSFUL
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A local, IDP or AD user logs in to ThoughtSpot.
- LOGOUT_FAILED
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User logout failed.
- LOGOUT_SUCCESSFUL
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A user logs out from ThoughtSpot.
- PRINCIPALS_IN_GROUP_UPDATE
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A user successfully or unsuccessfully attempts to add or remove users or groups from a group.
- PRIVILEGE_CHANGES
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A user adds or removes one or several privileges from a group.
- ROLE_CREATED
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Role creation attempted.
- ROLE_DELETED
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Role deletion attempted.
- ROLE_UPDATED
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Role update attempted.
- ROLES_ASSIGNED
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Roles assignment to group attempted.
- ROLES_IMPORTED
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Roles import attempted.
- ROLES_REMOVED
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Removal of roles from group attempted.
- UPDATE_ANSWERS
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A user attempts to modify an existing Answer.
- UPDATE_RELATIONSHIP
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A users attempts to update a join, including join properties of type and cardinality.
- UPDATE_MODEL
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A user attempts to update an existing Model or Worksheet.
- UPDATE_PASSWORD
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A user successfully or unsuccessfully attempts to change their password.
- UPDATE_PASSWORD_FAILED
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A user fails to update their password.
- UPDATE_PINBOARDS
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A user attempts to modify an existing Liveboard.
- UPDATE_VIEW
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A user attempts to update an existing view.
- UPDATE_RLS_RULE
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A user modifies an RLS rule on a table.
- USER_ACTIVATE
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A user attempts to activate their account.
- USER_GROUPS_CREATED
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A user creates a new group, either manually through the Admin Portal, or through the internal API.
- USER_GROUPS_DELETED
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A user deletes a group, either manually through the Admin Portal, or through the internal API.
- USER_GROUP_MODIFIED
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A user modifies the properties of a group, either in Admin Portal or over internal API. (Properties include group name, display name, and sharing visibility.)
- USERS_CREATED
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A new user creates an account, either manually in the Admin Portal or through the internal API.
- USERS_DELETED
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A user account is deleted, either manually in the Admin Portal or through the internal API.
- USERS_MODIFIED
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A user profile changes, either manually in the Admin Portal or over SAML sync.
Event descriptions
- TRIAL_USER_CREATE
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A user successfully or unsuccessfully attempts to create a Free Trial account.
- TRIAL_USER_DELETE
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A user successfully or unsuccessfully attempts to delete a Free Trial account.
- TRIAL_USER_END
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A user attempts to end their trial.
- TRIAL_USER_EXPIRE
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A Free Trial account expires.
- TRIAL_USER_EXTEND
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A user attempts to extend their trial.
- USER_INVITED
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A user is invited to ThoughtSpot for a free trial.
Event descriptions
- TEAM_CHANGE_SUBSCRIPTION
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The team subscription changes.
- TEAMS_EDITION_USER_DELETE
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A Team Edition user successfully or unsuccessfully attempts to delete an account.
- TEAM_EDITION_USER_EXPIRE
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A Team Edition user account expires.
- USER_CHANGE_SUBSCRIPTION
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A user attempts to change a subscription.
Event descriptions
- ORG_ACCESS_GRANTED_TO_USER
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User added to an Org.
- ORG_CREATION_FAILED
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Org creation failed.
- ORG_CREATION_SUCCESSFUL
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Successfully created an Org.
- ORG_DELETION_FAILED
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Org deletion failed.
- ORG_DELETION_SUCCESSFUL
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Successfully deleted an Org.
- ORG_SWITCH_FAILED
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Failed to switch Org for user.
- ORG_SWITCH_SUCCESSFUL
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Successfully switched Org.
