🚀 Announcing Audit Log Query Language (ALQL): A New Way to Search Through Logs 🚀

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Hello Atlassian community 👋

I'm Elana, a Product Manager for audit log in Cloud! Looking for a faster, easier, more powerful way to find Who did What When? We’re excited to announce that Audit Log Query Language (ALQL) is now available for all organization and site admins!

What is ALQL?

ALQL is a powerful, JQL-inspired query language built into the Audit log. It’s designed to make searching and filtering audit logs easier, faster, and more flexible, no matter how much your organization’s data grows.

You can start leveraging this advanced search capability by switching to ALQL mode.

The new search mode enables you to create more complex queries with multiple filters (such as date, activity, and actor) using operators like AND, OR, IN, and LIKE. As you create your query, autocomplete suggestions will appear to help craft your queries. With ALQL, you can streamline investigations, fulfill compliance obligations, and uncover deeper insights from your audit log data.

For detailed examples and a full list of supported features, visit this support document!

Example Queries

1. Find all log events associated with the actor Fran Perez after December 7, 2025.

   1. actor = "Fran Perez" AND created > "2025-12-07"

2. Find all log events associated with the actor Fran Perez taking the action of exporting an audit log after December 7, 2025.

   1. actor = "Fran Perez" AND activity = "export_audit_log" AND created > "2025-12-07"

3. Find all events triggered by Fran Perez on December 7, 2025, except those in the city of Melbourne

   1. created = "2025-12-07" AND NOT city = "Melbourne" AND actor = "Fran Perez"

When will this be available?

This feature is now available to organization and site admins across all plans. We hope ALQL empowers you to efficiently track and investigate user activity across your organization.

We want to hear from you!

We’d love your feedback so please feel free to email us at eagarwal2@atlassian.com or drop a comment on this post 🙏