Español – América Latina Português – Brasil Reports & monitoring Google Workspace Help Reports & monitoring Supported editions for this feature: Frontline Starter, Frontline Standard, and Frontline Plus; Enterprise Plus; Education Plus. Compare your edition As an administrator, you can use the security investigation tool to view and investigate live-state data about Chrome browsers in your organization. Investigate if a browser update has reached all devices in your organization. Inspect the details of browser devices where phishing events often occur. The report can help identify if a bad extension is responsible for the unsafe events. View which devices have a specific user signed in, and assess the potential damage made to different devices and browsers. Run a search for Chrome browser data Your ability to run a search depends on your Google edition, your administrative privileges, and the data source. You can run a search on all users, regardless of their Google Workspace edition. To run a search in the security investigation tool, first choose a data source. Then, choose one or more conditions for your search. For each condition, choose an attribute , an operator , and a value . In the Google Admin console, go to Menu Security Security center Investigation tool . Go to Investigation tool Requires having the Security center administrator privilege. In the Google Admin console, go to Menu Security Security center Investigation tool . Requires having the Security center administrator privilege. Click Data source and select Chrome browsers . Click Add Condition . Tip : You can include one or more conditions in your search or customize your search with nested queries . For details, go to Customize your search with nested queries . Click Attribute select an option. For example, to filter by a specific event type, select Event . For a complete list of attributes, go to the Attribute descriptions section later on this page. Select an operator. Enter a value or select a value from the list. (Optional) To add more search conditions, repeat the steps. Click Search . You can review the search results from the investigation tool in a table at the bottom of the page. (Optional) To save your investigation, click Save enter a title and description click Save . In the Condition builder tab, filters are represented as conditions with AND/OR operators. You can also use the Filter tab to include simple parameter and value pairs to filter the search results. If you give a user a new name, you will not see query results with the user's old name. For example, if you rename OldName@example.com to NewName@example.com , you will not see results for events related to OldName@example.com . You can only search for data in messages that have not yet been deleted from Trash. Attribute descriptions For this data source, you can use the following attributes when searching log event data. Click an entry in the search results to open the Log details panel to show: Agent ID —The agent's unique ID. Agent name —The agent's display name. Agent product —The service the agent used (only supported by Google Workspace Studio flow). Note : Additional agents will be supported later. You need to add this column to the search results. For the steps, go to Manage search results column data . IP Autonomous System Number (ASN), subdivision, and region associated with the log entry.

To review the IP ASN and subdivision and region code where the activity happened, click the name in the search results. Take action based on search results After you run a search in the security investigation tool, you can act on your search results. For example, you can run a search based on Gmail log events, and then use the tool to delete specific messages, send messages to quarantine, or send messages to users' inboxes. For more details about actions in the security investigation tool, go to Take action based on search results . Manage your investigations View your list of investigations To view a list of the investigations that you own and that were shared with you, click View investigations . The investigation list includes the names, descriptions, and owners of the investigations, and the date last modified. From this list, you can take action on any investigations that you own—for example, to delete an investigation. Check the box for an investigation, and then click Actions . Note: In the Quick access section, which is displayed above your list of investigations, you can view recently saved investigations. Configure settings for your investigations As a super administrator , click Settings to : Change the time zone for your investigations. The time zone applies to search conditions and results. Turn on or off Require reviewer . For more details, go to Require reviewers for bulk actions . Turn on or off View content . This setting allows admins with the appropriate privileges to view content. Turn on or off Enable action justification . For instructions and details, go to Configure settings for your investigations . Manage columns in your search results You can control which data columns appear in your search results. At the top-right of the search results table, click Manage columns . (Optional) To remove current columns, click Remove item . (Optional) To add columns, next to Add new column, click the Down arrow and select the data column. Repeat as needed. (Optional) To change the order of the columns, drag the column name. Export data from search results You can export search results in the security investigation tool to Google Sheets or to a CSV file. For instructions, see Export search results . Share, delete, and duplicate investigations To save your search criteria or share it with others, you can create and save an investigation, and then share, duplicate, or delete it. For details, go to Save, share, delete, and duplicate investigations . When and how long is data available? For more information about data sources, go to Data retention and lag times . Start an investigation based on a dashboard chart Create a custom chart based on an investigation Start an investigation from the alert center Investigate reports of malicious emails Investigate file sharing Investigate users across data sources Except as otherwise noted, the content of this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License , and code samples are licensed under the Apache 2.0 License . For details, see the Google Developers Site Policies . Java is a registered trademark of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Last updated 2026-09-10 UTC.