---
title: "overlane enterprise audit export"
description: "Export the tamper-evident audit log as CSV, with a manifest, to files"
---

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# overlane enterprise audit export

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Writes the whole log as CSV (every row with the hashes that chain it) and a manifest with the row count and the head hash. Exporting is itself recorded in the audit log. Check the files later with `overlane enterprise audit verify`.

## Usage

```sh
overlane enterprise audit export [--out FILE] [--dry-run]
```

## Flags

| Flag | Type | Required | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `--out` | string | no | `audit.csv` | Where to write the CSV (default audit.csv); the manifest goes beside it as FILE.manifest.json |
| `--dry-run` | boolean | no |  | Print the requests and file changes this command would make, then stop. Needs no credentials. |

## Examples

```sh
overlane enterprise audit export --out audit-2026-10.csv
```

## Behavior

- Effect: `write` (changes local or hosted state).
- Needs credentials: yes. Uses the network: yes.
- Supports `--dry-run`: yes. Accepts `--force`: no.
- Machine-readable description: `overlane schema enterprise audit export`.

## Result

With `--json` (the default when stdout is not a terminal) the command prints this JSON Schema's shape on stdout.

```json
{
  "anyOf": [
    {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "file": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "manifestFile": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "manifest": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "tenantId": {
              "type": "string",
              "minLength": 1,
              "maxLength": 128,
              "pattern": "^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9_.:-]*$",
              "description": "tenant identifier"
            },
            "exportId": {
              "type": "string",
              "minLength": 1,
              "maxLength": 64
            },
            "format": {
              "type": "string",
              "const": "csv"
            },
            "count": {
              "type": "integer",
              "minimum": 0,
              "maximum": 9007199254740991
            },
            "firstSeq": {
              "anyOf": [
                {
                  "type": "integer",
                  "exclusiveMinimum": 0,
                  "maximum": 9007199254740991
                },
                {
                  "type": "null"
                }
              ]
            },
            "lastSeq": {
              "anyOf": [
                {
                  "type": "integer",
                  "exclusiveMinimum": 0,
                  "maximum": 9007199254740991
                },
                {
                  "type": "null"
                }
              ]
            },
            "head": {
              "anyOf": [
                {
                  "type": "string",
                  "pattern": "^[0-9a-f]{64}$"
                },
                {
                  "type": "null"
                }
              ]
            },
            "exportedAt": {
              "type": "string",
              "format": "date-time",
              "pattern": "^(?:(?:\\d\\d[2468][048]|\\d\\d[13579][26]|\\d\\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\\d|2[0-8])))T(?:(?:[01]\\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\\d:[0-5]\\d(?:\\.\\d+)?(?:Z|([+-](?:[01]\\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\\d)))$"
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "tenantId",
            "exportId",
            "format",
            "count",
            "firstSeq",
            "lastSeq",
            "head",
            "exportedAt"
          ],
          "additionalProperties": false
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "file",
        "manifestFile",
        "manifest"
      ],
      "additionalProperties": false
    },
    {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "dryRun": {
          "type": "boolean",
          "const": true
        },
        "service": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "requests": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "method": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "path": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "body": {},
              "note": {
                "type": "string"
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "method",
              "path"
            ],
            "additionalProperties": false
          }
        },
        "commands": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        },
        "writes": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "path": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "action": {
                "type": "string",
                "enum": [
                  "write",
                  "append",
                  "delete"
                ]
              },
              "description": {
                "type": "string"
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "path",
              "action",
              "description"
            ],
            "additionalProperties": false
          }
        },
        "notes": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "dryRun",
        "requests",
        "commands",
        "writes",
        "notes"
      ],
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
  ]
}
```

See [exit codes](/cli/#exit-codes) for the status the process returns.

Source: https://docs.overlane.app/cli/enterprise-audit-export/index.mdx