# Auditing of visualization creation/deletion

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditing-of-visualization-creation-deletion/169390>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 21, 2019, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditing-of-visualization-creation-deletion/169390 "2019-02-21T10:40:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![arvind297](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71c47a/32.png) [@arvind297](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arvind297)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditing-of-visualization-creation-deletion/169390/1 "2019-02-21T10:40:43Z")

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Hi,

Is there any parameter that has to be enabled to check the user who has created/deleted the visualization in Kibana. I mean Can we check the users who has deleted the visualization in kibana.

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**Author:** ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 7:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditing-of-visualization-creation-deletion/169390/2 "2019-02-21T19:48:44Z")

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I'm not sure what you mean by "check the user", but there aren't any features to log which user performed update operations on the saved object documents.

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**Author:** ![arvind297](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71c47a/32.png) [@arvind297](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arvind297)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2019, 10:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditing-of-visualization-creation-deletion/169390/3 "2019-02-22T10:47:03Z")

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Hi Tim,

Thanks for the update,I wanted to identify the users who has deleted/updated the visualization.if we enable xpack.security.audit.enabled to true in kiabana.yml,will it have only authorization details and no details regarding the operations??

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**Author:** ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2019, 8:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditing-of-visualization-creation-deletion/169390/4 "2019-02-22T20:01:20Z")

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That is correct, it doesn't log the operation that an authenticated user performed.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2019, 8:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditing-of-visualization-creation-deletion/169390/5 "2019-03-22T20:01:23Z")

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