Run Audit Reports in O365 SharePoint Online

Is there a reason why View all Auditing Reports > Run Reports > Customise Report isn't working in SharePoint online? This is the question I’m asking myself as this feature works in On Premise environment.

When you try to save the "Content viewing" audit log report in SharePoint Online you’ll get the dreadful “Sorry, something went wrong” error written in a large font. The next line will say “Report contains no data…” as shown below in Figure 1.           

Figure 1: Sorry, something went wrong

You can see the symptom described here – http://ift.tt/1mZ5aMW.

As stated above, "Content viewing" audit log report is not available with SharePoint Online. You’ll have to use “Security & Compliance” portal, logged in as Global Admin following the steps below; 

• Access http://ift.tt/1l4uXLA

Figure 1: for Step 1

• Click the Tiles icon and Click “Security & Compliance” tile

        Figure 2: for Step 2

• Click “Reports” from the left panel

        Figure 3: for Step 3

 

• Click “View reports” under Reports

        Figure 4: for Step 4

 

• Click “Office 365 audit log report”

        Figure 5: for Step 5

 

• On the “Audit log search” – Select from Activities, Start Date, End Date, Users etc. then Click the Search button

        Figure 6: for Step 6

 

• Under the left pane you have the “Results”. You can Filter results and “Export results”

        Figure 7: for Step 7

 

• Now Download the file by Clicking “Download all results” under “Export results”

        Figure 8: for Step 8

Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV6_0sF4f7E

by Larry Saytee via Everyone's Blog Posts - SharePoint Community