keycloak/docs/documentation/server_admin/topics/events/admin.adoc

=== Auditing admin events

You can record all actions that are performed by an administrator in the Admin Console. The Admin Console performs administrative actions by invoking the {project_name} REST interface and {project_name} audits these REST invocations. You can view the resulting events in the Admin Console.

.Procedure

Use this procedure to start auditing admin actions.

. Click *Realm settings* in the menu.
. Click the *Events* tab.
. Click the *Admin events settings* tab.
. Toggle *Save events* to *ON*.
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{project_name} displays the *Include representation* switch.
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. Toggle *Include representation* to *ON*.
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The `Include Representation` switch includes JSON documents sent through the admin REST API so you can view the administrators actions.
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.Admin events settings
image:images/admin-events-settings.png[Admin events settings]

. Click *Save*.

. To clear the database of stored actions, click *Clear admin events*.

.Procedure

You can now view admin events.

. Click *Events* in the menu.
. Click the *Admin events* tab.
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.Admin events
image:images/admin-events.png[Admin events]

When the `Include Representation` switch is ON, it can lead to storing a lot of information in the database. You can set a maximum length of the representation by using the `+--spi-events-store--jpa--max-field-length+` argument. This setting is useful if you want to adhere to the underlying storage limitation. For example:

[source,bash]
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kc.[sh|bat] --spi-events-store--jpa--max-field-length=2500
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