Logs

Review detailed logs for your Zero Trust organization.

• User logs
• Access audit logs
• Gateway activity logs
• Tunnel audit logs
• Posture logs
• Logpush integration
• Enable Email Security logs

Log retention

Cloudflare Zero Trust logs are stored for a varying period of time based on the service used and plan type:

	Free	Standard	Access	Gateway	Enterprise
Admin logs	18 months	18 months	18 months	18 months	18 months
Access logs	24 hours	30 days	30 days	24 hours	180 days
DNS logs	24 hours	30 days	24 hours	30 days	180 days1
Network logs	24 hours	30 days	24 hours	30 days	30 days
HTTP logs	24 hours	30 days	24 hours	30 days	30 days
DEX logs	7 days	7 days	7 days	7 days	7 days
Device posture logs	30 days	30 days	30 days	30 days	30 days

Log Explorer Beta

Log Explorer users can store Zero Trust logs directly within Cloudflare in an R2 bucket and access them with the dashboard or API. Log Explorer supports the following Zero Trust datasets:

• Access requests (FROM access_requests)
• CASB Findings (FROM casb_findings)
• Device posture results (FROM device_posture_results)
• Gateway DNS (FROM gateway_dns)
• Gateway HTTP (FROM gateway_http)
• Gateway Network (FROM gateway_network)
• Zero Trust Network Session Logs (FROM zero_trust_network_sessions)

For more information, refer to Log Explorer.

Customer Metadata Boundary

Cloudflare Zero Trust can be used with the Data Localization Suite to ensure that data storage is restricted to a specific geographic region. For more information refer to Customer Metadata Boundary.

Data privacy

For more information on how we use this data, refer to our Privacy Policy ↗.

Footnotes

1. Enterprise users on per query plans cannot store DNS logs via Cloudflare. You can still export logs via Logpush. For more information, contact your account team. ↩