# Need to add logs for, While Create New Users and Adding them to Groups in Hippo CMS **URL:** \ **Category:** Experience Manager (PaaS/OnPrem)\ **Created:** [January 30, 2019, 7:15am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/need-to-add-logs-for-while-create-new-users-and-adding-them-to-groups-in-hippo-cms/761 "2019-01-30T07:15:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gkr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e480ec/32.png) [@gkr](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/gkr)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 7:15am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/need-to-add-logs-for-while-create-new-users-and-adding-them-to-groups-in-hippo-cms/761/1 "2019-01-30T07:15:07Z")
Hello Guys, We have a requirement, at the time of Creating, Assigning them to any Groups we need to log those details for internal tracking purpose… Kindly could you please help me out, how i can do this. I am new to Hippo… thanks in Advance ---
**Author:** ![jasper.floor](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.bloomreach.com/jasper.floor/32/28_2.png) [@jasper.floor](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/jasper.floor)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 9:37am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/need-to-add-logs-for-while-create-new-users-and-adding-them-to-groups-in-hippo-cms/761/2 "2019-01-30T09:37:55Z")
These things are logged in the audit log (found in tomcat logs) and also in the repository in the hippo:log. If you need this data from the hippo:log you should write something to search and collate because there is more logged here and it isn’t ordered to be nice to humans. ---
**Author:** ![gkr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e480ec/32.png) [@gkr](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/gkr)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 10:15am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/need-to-add-logs-for-while-create-new-users-and-adding-them-to-groups-in-hippo-cms/761/3 "2019-01-30T10:15:29Z")
Hello Jasper, Thanks for your reply. I could’t see in audit logs of my local Hippo cms. Could you please let me know if i need to add any configuration stuff for that … Could you please guide me way to read/search hippo.log … Regards Ganesh ---
**Author:** ![jasper.floor](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.bloomreach.com/jasper.floor/32/28_2.png) [@jasper.floor](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/jasper.floor)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 10:52am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/need-to-add-logs-for-while-create-new-users-and-adding-them-to-groups-in-hippo-cms/761/4 "2019-01-30T10:52:06Z")
This should be available by default. It’s called `hippo-audit.log` pre 13, or just `audit.log` in 13. logging will look like: ``` 30.01.2019 10:34:50 INFO pool-3-thread-1 [AuditLogger.logHippoEvent:45] {"application":"cms","action":"create-user","category":"user-management","message":"created user ab","user":"admin","timestamp":1548840890027} 30.01.2019 10:35:20 INFO pool-3-thread-1 [AuditLogger.logHippoEvent:45] {"application":"cms","action":"add-user-to-group","category":"group-management","message":"added user ab to group admin","user":"admin","timestamp":1548840920734} ``` ---
**Author:** ![gkr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e480ec/32.png) [@gkr](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/gkr)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/need-to-add-logs-for-while-create-new-users-and-adding-them-to-groups-in-hippo-cms/761/5 "2019-01-30T13:40:43Z")
Hello Jasper, Thanks for quick reply… we are using Hippo 12.5 ---
**Author:** ![jasper.floor](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.bloomreach.com/jasper.floor/32/28_2.png) [@jasper.floor](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/jasper.floor)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/need-to-add-logs-for-while-create-new-users-and-adding-them-to-groups-in-hippo-cms/761/6 "2019-01-30T14:38:23Z")
You can find the audit log in your tomcat logs folder. If you are running with cargo this will be in `target/tomcat8x/logs/hippo-audit.log` On a server it depends on your setup, but likely still in tomcat/logs. Unless you made changes to logging configuration this is how it works. You can also find this in the repository. In the console you will see a node `hippo:log`. Logging is also in here. You can use the repository servlet to query information. Or you can write a groovy script. Or you can write a custom report: > **[Add a Custom Report to the Reporting Dashboard - Enterprise Java Content...](https://www.onehippo.org/library/reporting/add-a-custom-report-to-the-reporting-dashboard.html)** > > Hippo Open Source Enterprise Content Management The information is all there for you. Note that event log in the repository is (should be) regularly “cleaned”. This is enabled by default. > **[Event Log Cleanup - Enterprise Java Content management system - Hippo CMS](https://www.onehippo.org/library/administration/maintenance/event-log-cleanup.html)** > > Hippo Open Source Enterprise Content Management Your tomcat logs are cleaned according to whatever schedule you set on your servers. ---
**Author:** ![gkr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e480ec/32.png) [@gkr](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/gkr)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 4:57am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/need-to-add-logs-for-while-create-new-users-and-adding-them-to-groups-in-hippo-cms/761/7 "2019-01-31T04:57:08Z")
Hello Jasper, I got it, thanks your time and I really appreciate your timely reply.