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Logged

logged_in

Definition: The event is emitted anytime an end user logs into Canvas

Trigger: Triggered when a user has logged in.

Payload Example:

{
  "metadata": {
    "client_ip": "93.184.216.34",
    "event_name": "logged_in",
    "event_time": "2019-11-01T19:11:01.335Z",
    "hostname": "oxana.instructure.com",
    "http_method": "POST",
    "producer": "canvas",
    "referrer": "https://oxana.instructure.com/idp/profile/SAML2/Redirect/SSO?execution=e1s2",
    "request_id": "1dd9dc6f-2fb0-4c19-a6c5-7ee1bf3ed295",
    "root_account_id": "21070000000000001",
    "root_account_lti_guid": "VicYj3cu5BIFpoZhDVU4DZumnlBrWi1grgJEzADs.oxana.instructure.com",
    "root_account_uuid": "VicYj3cu5BIFpoZhDVU4DZumnlBrWi1grgJEzADs",
    "session_id": "ef686f8ed684abf78cbfa1f6a58112b5",
    "url": "https://oxana.instructure.com/login/saml",
    "user_account_id": "21070000000000001",
    "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.103 Safari/537.36",
    "user_id": "21070000000000001",
    "user_login": "oxana@example.com",
    "user_sis_id": "456-T45"
  },
  "body": {
    "redirect_url": "https://oxana.instructure.com/"
  }
}

Event Body Schema

Field Description
redirect_url The URL the user was redirected to after logging in. Is set when the user logs in after clicking a deep link into Canvas.

logged_out

Definition: The event is emitted anytime an end user logs out of Canvas

Trigger: Triggered when a user has logged out.

Payload Example:

{
  "metadata": {
    "client_ip": "93.184.216.34",
    "event_name": "logged_out",
    "event_time": "2019-11-01T19:11:04.195Z",
    "hostname": "oxana.instructure.com",
    "http_method": "POST",
    "producer": "canvas",
    "referrer": "https://oxana.instructure.com/courses/1188569/quizzes/4266352?module_item_id=23650329",
    "request_id": "1dd9dc6f-2fb0-4c19-a6c5-7ee1bf3ed295",
    "root_account_id": "21070000000000001",
    "root_account_lti_guid": "VicYj3cu5BIFpoZhDVU4DZumnlBrWi1grgJEzADs.oxana.instructure.com",
    "root_account_uuid": "VicYj3cu5BIFpoZhDVU4DZumnlBrWi1grgJEzADs",
    "session_id": "ef686f8ed684abf78cbfa1f6a58112b5",
    "time_zone": "America/Los_Angeles",
    "url": "https://oxana.instructure.com/logout",
    "user_account_id": "21070000000000001",
    "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.103 Safari/537.36",
    "user_id": "21070000000000001",
    "user_login": "oxana@example.com",
    "user_sis_id": "456-T45"
  },
  "body": {}
}

Note: Timestamps will be in ISO8601 format, including an offset. Be sure to take that into account when parsing, since it’s unspecified which offset timestamps will use, and the offset may even change between different timestamps within a single event.