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Audit log example
This page shows an example of a Data Access audit log entry that is generated
when you send a write request to Bigtable. For more
details about audit log entries, see Understanding audit logs. For a list of Bigtable fields that are
logged, see Audit log fields.
For brevity, some parts of the log entry are omitted, and some fields are
highlighted for emphasis.
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