---
title: "Logging Actions"
slug: "logging-actions"
description: "A list of actions in RapidIdentity Connect that can interact with logs."
tags: ["RapidIdentity ", "Connect", "Actions", "Logs", "Logging"]
updated: 2022-06-03T13:13:59Z
published: 2022-06-03T13:13:59Z
canonical: "help.rapididentity.com/logging-actions"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.rapididentity.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Logging Actions

## Logging Actions

### log

Write a message to the log.

| Property | Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| message* | text, expression, variable | the message to be logged |
| level | choice (INFO, TRACE, DEBUG, ERROR, WARN), text, expression, variable | the log level (default: INFO) |
| color | text, expression, variable | the message color (any legal html color specification)(default: depends on level |

```actionscript
# Should return "1,2,3,4"
log("Starting the loop process!")
a = createArray()
i = 0
while (i < 10) {
i = i + 1
if (i == 5) {
break ()
} else {
log(i)
}
}
```

### logAuditEvent

Write an event to the audit log, returning the automatically generated event unique id on success.

| Property | Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| eventName* | choice(addDistributionListMember, addGroupMember, changePassword, createAccount, createDistributionList, createGroup, createMailbox, deleteAccount, deleteDistributionList, deleteGroup, deleteMailbox, disableAccount, disableMailbox, enableAccount, enableMailbox, moveAccount, moveDistributionList, moveGroup, removeDistributionListMember, removeGroupMember, renameAccount, renameDistributionList, renameGroup, updateAccount, updateDistributionList, updateGroup, updateMailbox), text, expression, variable | the audit event name |
| groupID | text, expression, variable | id used for grouping individual events together as one logical event (default: the automatically generated event unique id) |
| targetSystem | text, expression, variable | the target system of the action (default: none) |
| targetID | text, expression, variable | the ID of the target object of the action (default: none) |
| target | text, expression, variable | the name of the target object of the action (default: none) |
| perpetratorID | text, expression, variable | the ID of the perpetrator of the action (default: none) |
| perpetratorDN | text, expression, variable | the DN of the perpetrator of the action (default: none) |
| successful* | boolean, expression, variable | the result of the action |
| extendedProperties | expression, variable | Record or object containing addition key/value pairs to be logged (default: none) |
| returnVariable | expression, variable | name of the variable to be assigned to the return value |

```actionscript
logAuditEvent("changePassword", undefined, "AD:myDC", undefined,
"cn=FFlintstone,cn=Users,dc=bedrock,dc=net", undefined,
"cn=Administrator,cn=Users,dc=bedrock,dc=net", true,
{userpassword: newPassword})
```