Logs & Forensics is the investigation workbench for searching, filtering, and exporting logs. You’ll find it under Security & Network → Logs & Forensics in the sidebar.

[!NOTE] This tab requires the audit.view permission (the same permission that gates the governance Audit Logs record).

[!WARNING] This tab is a placeholder in the current build. The page shows its heading — “Search, filter, and export logs for investigations.” — and a Coming soon… panel. The forensic search/filter/export tooling described below is not yet wired up. For an audit trail you can use today, see Audit Logs (below).

What this tab is for

Logs & Forensics is intended to be the free-text, investigation-oriented log surface: pull together system, camera, and detection logs, narrow them by time and keyword, and export the result for an investigation or hand-off. It is distinct from the governance audit record.

Logs & Forensics vs. Audit Logs

OpenNVR keeps two separate log surfaces — don’t confuse them:

	Logs & Forensics (/logs)	Audit Logs (/audit-logs)
Sidebar group	Security & Network	Governance
Purpose	Free-text investigation across system/camera/detection logs	The immutable who-did-what compliance record
Status	Placeholder (Coming soon)	Live
Permission	audit.view	audit.view

[!TIP] Until Logs & Forensics ships, use Audit Logs for the record of user actions (logins, config changes, camera provisioning, deletions), and Compliance & Reports for the camera-access audit log and CSV export.

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📸 Screenshots to capture

Capture these from the running app and save them to opennvr-site/public/screenshots/ with the exact filenames below:

• logs-forensics-overview.png — the Logs & Forensics tab as it appears today, showing the heading and the Coming soon… panel. (Replace with the full workbench once the feature ships.)