Audit repository events

Starting in DTR 2.6, each repository page includes an Activity tab which displays a sortable and paginated list of the most recent events within the repository. This offers better visibility along with the ability to audit events. Event types listed vary according to your repository permission level. Additionally, MSR admins can enable auto-deletion of repository events as part of maintenance and cleanup.

In the following section, we will show you how to view and audit the list of events in a repository. We will also cover the event types associated with your permission level.

View List of Events

As of DTR 2.3, admins were able to view a list of MSR events using the API. MSR 2.6 enhances that feature by showing a permission-based events list for each repository page on the web interface. To view the list of events within a repository, do the following:

  1. Navigate to https://<msr-url> and log in with your MSR credentials.

  2. Select Repositories from the left-side navigation panel, and then click on the name of the repository that you want to view. Note that you will have to click on the repository name following the / after the specific namespace for your repository.

  3. Select the Activity tab. You should see a paginated list of the latest events based on your repository permission level. By default, Activity shows the latest 10 events and excludes pull events, which are only visible to repository and MSR admins.

    • If you’re a repository or an MSR admin, uncheck Exclude pull to view pull events. This should give you a better understanding of who is consuming your images.

    • To update your event view, select a different time filter from the drop-down list.

Activity Stream

The following table breaks down the data included in an event and uses the highlighted Create Promotion Policy event as an example.

Event detail

Description

Example

Label

Friendly name of the event.

Create Promotion Policy

Repository

This will always be the repository in review following the <user-or-org>/<repository_name> convention outlined in Create a repository

test-org/test-repo-1

Tag

Tag affected by the event, when applicable.

test-org/test-repo-1:latest where latest is the affected tag

SHA

The digest value for ``CREATE` operations such as creating a new image tag or a promotion policy.

sha256:bbf09ba3

Type

Event type. Possible values are: CREATE, GET, UPDATE, DELETE, SEND, FAIL and SCAN.

CREATE

Initiated by

The actor responsible for the event. For user-initiated events, this will reflect the user ID and link to that user’s profile. For image events triggered by a policy – pruning, pull / push mirroring, or promotion – this will reflect the relevant policy ID except for manual promotions where it reflects PROMOTION MANUAL_P, and link to the relevant policy page. Other event actors may not include a link.

PROMOTION CA5E7822

Date and Time

When the event happened in your configured time zone.

2018 9:59 PM

Event Audits

Given the level of detail on each event, it should be easy for MSR and security admins to determine what events have taken place inside of MSR. For example, when an image which shouldn’t have been deleted ends up getting deleted, the security admin can determine when and who initiated the deletion.

Event Permissions

Repository event

Description

Minimum permission level

Push

Refers to Create Manifest and Update Tag events. Learn more about pushing images.

Authenticated users

Scan

Requires security scanning to be set up by an MSR admin. Once enabled, this will display as a SCAN event type.

Authenticated users

Promotion

Refers to a Create Promotion Policy event which links to the Promotions tab of the repository where you can edit the existing promotions. See Promotion Policies for different ways to promote an image.

Repository admin

Delete

Refers to “Delete Tag” events. Learn more about Delete images.

Authenticated users

Pull

Refers to “Get Tag” events. Learn more about Pull an image.

Repository admin

Mirror

Refers to Pull mirroring and Push mirroring events. See Mirror images to another registry and Mirror images from another registry for more details.

Repository admin

Create repo

Refers to Create Repository events. See Create a repository for more details.

Authenticated users

Where to go next