---
title: How to create and manage Audit Trail exports
description: Learn how to export your Audit Trail event logs to your Object Storage bucket, retrieve your export, and securely manage your data
tags: audit-trail events track filter export-to-bucket
dates:
  validation: 2025-11-13
  posted: 2025-11-13
---

import Requirements from '@macros/iam/requirements.mdx'

This page shows you how to export your Audit Trail event logs to an Object Storage bucket, and retrieve an export using the [Scaleway console](https://console.scaleway.com/).

By default, your event logs are exported to the `Standard` [storage class](/object-storage/concepts/#storage-class) or to the storage class you have selected upon bucket creation.

<Requirements />

- A Scaleway account logged into the [console](https://console.scaleway.com)
- [Owner](/iam/concepts/#owner) status or [IAM permissions](/iam/concepts/#permission) allowing you to perform actions in the intended Organization
- Created [resources integrated](/audit-trail/reference-content/resource-integration-with-adt/) with Audit Trail
- [Created](/object-storage/how-to/create-a-bucket/) an Object Storage bucket with [object lock](/object-storage/how-to/use-object-lock/#how-to-configure-bucket-lock) set up

  <Message type="note">
    At this stage, an export includes all Audit Trail events by default, allowing only one active export configuration per region. Future updates will let you select specific events for export.
  </Message>

## How to create an export

1. Click **Audit Trail** in the **Monitoring** section of the [Scaleway console](https://console.scaleway.com/) side menu.
2. Click the **Region** drop-down and select a region in which you have Audit Trail events.
3. Click **Create export**. You are prompted to create an event export.
4. Fill out the required information to configure your **destination bucket**:
    1. In the **Bucket region** drop-down, select the region in which you have created your bucket.
    2. In the **Bucket project** drop-down, select the Scaleway project in which you have created your bucket.
    3. In the **Destination bucket** drop-down, select your bucket.
    4. In the **Prefix** field, enter a [prefix](/audit-trail/concepts/#prefix) to define the folder path where your event logs will be stored.
    5. Click **Next** to move on to the Audit Trail export creation step.
5. Enter a name and optional tags for the Audit Trail export, then click **Next**.
6. Review your export configuration and click **Create export** to confirm. Your export displays in the **Exports** tab.
    <Message type="note">
     The first Audit Trail export includes data from the past 90 days and may take a few minutes to complete.
    </Message>

## How to retrieve and manage an export

1. Click **Object Storage** in the **Storage** section of the [Scaleway console](https://console.scaleway.com/) side menu.
2. Click the **Region** drop-down and select the region in which you have created your destination bucket.
3. Click your destination bucket.
        Your Audit Trail export folder displays. Inside this folder, you will find a `2025` folder (corresponding to the year), in which you will find three other folders, for example, `09`, `10`, and `11` (corresponding to the last 3 months). Each of these folders contains a `DD` folder corresponding to the day the event logs happened. Your Audit Trail export is located inside the `DD` folder, as a JSON file.
4. Access the `YYYY` folder, the desired `MM` folder, and the `DD` folder. Your export should display as follows: `logs_xxxxxxxxx.json`.
5. Click the <Icon name="download" /> icon to download your export.
6. Optionally, click the <Icon name="seeMore" /> icon and click:
    1. **More info** to display object information
    2. **Visibility** to change your [object visibility](/object-storage/concepts/#visibility)
    3. **Object metadata** to add information.
    4. **Object tags** to add tags
    5. **Edit name** to update the name of your file
    6. **Get public link** to publicly share your file
    7. **Delete** to delete your export **from the bucket**


## How to delete an export

1. Click **Audit Trail** in the **Monitoring** section of the [Scaleway console](https://console.scaleway.com/) side menu.
2. Click the **Region** drop-down and select the region in which you have created your Audit Trail export.
3. Click the **Exports** tab. Your export displays.
4. Click the <Icon name="delete" /> icon to delete your export.
5. Type **DELETE** and click **Delete export** to confirm.