Viewing Old Event Logs
By Kamal Haidar
Dashboard can maintain device event logs for up to 3 months and client event logs for up to 12 months. These can be viewed for historical purposes unless Network-Wide > Configure > General > Client privacy has been configured for a shorter timeframe. The Client Privacy feature is only available for organizations hosted in the Europe region of Meraki Cloud.
Our recommended best practice for those who require long-term historical logs is to implement a syslog server.
To view historical event logs:
- Navigate to Network-wide > Monitor > Event log.
- Click in the Before field and specify a date and time.
- Once the date and time have been selected, click the Search button to begin the search. This will display client and device event logs:
- Attempting to run a general search to view event logs older than 3 months will result in a "No matching events found message"
- The client field will need to be populated to view client logs that date back up to 12 months
You cannot download more than 1000 events at a time (when using the export function).
Note: Event logs are tied to the Dashboard network, as such, swapping devices will not affect the event log, but moving devices to a new network will cause their device logs to be cleared.