Auditing label usage within Google Drive

[AVG]

As a Google Admin is there a way to monitor the application of labels to documents by your organisation's users? For example, to investigate whether certain users are not applying them.

[tquinney]

Yes, the Drive Audit Logs include events about label application, removal, and mutation.  These are available to Workspace Administrators in the Admin Console or through the Reports API:  

https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/reports/v1/appendix/activity/drive#label_added

[jnw221]

The drive audit log doesn't show which label was actually applied. How do I see that information? We have badge labels enforced for users upon anything added to Drive. It works well but I cannot figure out how to see any reports on this. 

[tquinney]

The Drive logs do not include the label metadata unless the event type is a labeling operation (apply, modify, delete).  Drive recently launched an update to the BigQuery log export where the Drive events are enriched with label metadata: https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/03/workspace-audit-log-exports-in-bigquery-drive-label-...