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How to get user activity on files and folders

  • May 22, 2025
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Is it possible to get a user activity log (which files were load, edited, downloaded etc.) for the certain user by BOX  API?

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You can access this information by using the enterprise events endpoint


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This info is interesting:

Box does not store all user and enterprise events for all time. Please see the retention policy for user and enterprise events below.

User Events Retention Policy - We store user events for between 2 weeks and 2 months, after which they are removed.

Enterprise Events Retention Policy - Enterprise events are accessible for up to 7 years via the reports section in the Box Admin Console. Enterprise events are accessible for up to 1 year via the Enterprise Events endpoint.

 

So the API only has access to 1 year but report GUI has 7? We're looking to automate user event report as part of user de-provisioning process. We'd need the data for user since user was provisioned (or 7 years).