See who granted someone access to a space

[Eilif Johannsen]

Hi Community,

I'm trying to find out which user has granted a user access to a space and looking in the admin audit log doesn't help me with this.

Searching in the admin audit log doesn't give me the entries for the user.

[Johnny Tu]

Hi Eilif,

As Ramin preiously mentioned, the Confluence audit log should show you which admin added a user into a space. See the entry example below.

[Eilif Johannsen]

You are right @Johnny Tu, it does show it. Think I was blinded by the search function not returning any results which make it difficult to locate the information.

If I search for a user that I see in "Item affected" then that entry doesn't show up. So in your case searching for "Sarah Connor" wouldn't give you that entry.

I found a way to get the result by exporting the audit log and import it into Excel and search for what I was looking for.

My example is this:

Entry where space permissions for a user was changed

Searching for "Chat Notifications"

[Barbara Szczesniak]

@Eilif Johannsen If this is the user you are concerned about, I just wanted to mention that Chat Notifications is a user account for an app used in your Confluence instance.

For example, in my space, I have users named Chat Notifications, Scroll Viewport for Confluence Cloud, and Microsoft Teams for Confluence Cloud.

[Eilif Johannsen]

@Barbara Szczesniak It isn't the exact user, that was just an example.

I tried with multiple real users where I don't get a result.

[Ramin Shanehsaz _Computerra_]

Hi Eilif,

I'm surprised, because in my Confluence audit log the assignment of space permissions is displayed. How did you approach this?

[Manoj Gangwar]

HI @Eilif Johannsen 

Confluence Cloud doesn't have a feature to directly show who granted a permission. While you can see who the space administrators are, you can't pinpoint the specific person who added a particular user.