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Login Event Type

Login events contain details about your org’s user login history.

Login Event Type is used by EventLogFile (ELF). It isn’t a real-time event. For the LoginEvent real-time event, which is part of Real-Time Event Monitoring (RTEM), see LoginEvent in the Platform Events Developer Guide.

Note

For details about event monitoring, see the Trailhead Event Monitoring module or REST API Developer’s Guide.

Fields

Field Details
API_TYPE
Type
String
Description
The type of API request.
Possible values are:
  • D—Apex Class
  • E—SOAP Enterprise
  • M—SOAP Metadata
  • P—SOAP Partner
  • S—SOAP Apex
  • T—SOAP Tooling
  • f—Feed
  • l—Live Agent
  • p—SOAP ClientSync
API_VERSION
Type
String
Description
The version of the API that’s being used.
For example: 36.0.
AUTHENTICATION_METHOD_REFERENCE
Type
String
Description
The authentication method used by a third-party identification provider for an OpenID Connect single sign-on protocol. This field is available in API version 51.0 and later.
BROWSER_TYPE
Type
String
Description
The identifier string returned by the browser used at login.
Example values are:
  • Go-http-client/1.1
  • Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv%3A50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0
  • Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.84 Safari/537.36
CIPHER_SUITE
Type
String
Description
The TLS cipher suite used for the login. Values are OpenSSL-style cipher suite names, with hyphen delimiters. For more information, see OpenSSL Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit.
CPU_TIME
Type
Number
Description
The CPU time in milliseconds used to complete the request. This field indicates the amount of activity taking place in the app server layer.
CLIENT_IP
Type
String
Description
The IP address of the client that’s using Salesforce services. A Salesforce internal IP (such as a login from AppExchange) is shown as “Salesforce.com IP”.
For example: 96.43.144.26.
DB_TOTAL_TIME
Type
Number
Description
The time in nanoseconds for a database round trip. Includes time spent in the JDBC driver, network to the database, and DB_CPU_TIME. Compare this field to CPU_TIME to determine whether performance issues are occurring in the database layer or in your own code.
EVENT_TYPE
Type
String
Description
The type of event. The value is always Login.
LOGIN_KEY
Type
String
Description
The string that ties together all events in a given user’s login session. It starts with a login event and ends with either a logout event or the user session expiring.
For example: GeJCsym5eyvtEK2I.
LOGIN_STATUS
Type
String
Description
The status of the login attempt. For successful logins, the value is LOGIN_NO_ERROR. All other values indicate errors or authentication issues. For details, see Login Event Type — LOGIN_STATUS Values.
LOGIN_SUB_TYPE
Type
String
Description
The type of login flow used.
Possible values are:
  • uiup—UI Username-Password
  • oauthpassword—OAuth Username-Password
  • oauthtoken—OAuth User-Agent
  • oauthhybridtoken—OAuth User-Agent for Hybrid Apps
  • oauthtokenidtoken—OAuth User-Agent with ID Token
  • oauthclientcredential—OAuth Client Credential
  • oauthcode—OAuth Web Server
  • oauthhybridauthcode—OAuth Web Server for Hybrid Apps
LOGIN_TYPE
Type
String
Description
The type of login used to access the session.
Possible values are:
  • 7—AppExchange
  • A—Application
  • s—Certificate-based login
  • k—Chatter Communities External User
  • n—Chatter Communities External User Third Party SSO
  • r—Employee Login to Community
  • z—Lightning Login
  • l—Networks Portal API Only
  • 6—Remote Access Client
  • i—Remote Access 2.0
  • I—Other Apex API
  • R—Partner Product
  • w—Passwordless Login
  • 3—Customer Service Portal
  • q—Partner Portal Third-Party SSO
  • 9—Partner Portal
  • 5—SAML Idp Initiated SSO
  • m—SAML Chatter Communities External User SSO
  • b—SAML Customer Service Portal SSO
  • c—SAML Partner Portal SSO
  • h—SAML Site SSO
  • 8—SAML Sfdc Initiated SSO
  • E—SelfService
  • j—Third Party SSO
ORGANIZATION_ID
Type
Id
Description
The 15-character ID of the organization.
For example: 00D000000000123.
REQUEST_ID
Type
String
Description
The unique ID of a single transaction. A transaction can contain one or more events. Each event in a given transaction has the same REQUEST_ID.
For example: 3nWgxWbDKWWDIk0FKfF5DV.
REQUEST_STATUS
Type
String
Description
The status of the request for a page view or user interface action.
Possible values are:
  • S—Success. Salesforce handled the request successfully. If an Apex controller throws an exception, this status is also returned.
  • F—Failure. Typically 4xx or 5xx HTTP codes, such as no permission to view page, page took too long to render, page is read-only.
  • U—Undefined
  • A—Authorization Error
  • R—Redirect. Typically a 3xx HTTP code, possibly initiated by an Apex controller in a Visualforce page.
  • N—Not Found. 404 error.
RUN_TIME
Type
Number
Description
The amount of time that the request took in milliseconds.
SESSION_KEY
Type
String
Description
The user’s unique session ID. You can use this value to identify all user events within a session. When a user logs out and logs in again, a new session is started. For Login Event Type, this field is usually null because the event is captured before a session is created.
Example
d7DEq/ANa7nNZZVD
SOURCE_IP
Type
IP
Description
The source IP of the login request.
TIMESTAMP
Type
String
Description
The access time of Salesforce services in GMT.
For example: 20130715233322.670.
TIMESTAMP_DERIVED
Type
DateTime
Description
The access time of Salesforce services in ISO8601-compatible format (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.sssZ).
For example: 2015-07-27T11:32:59.555Z. Timezone is GMT.
TLS_PROTOCOL
Type
String
Description
The TLS protocol used for the login.
Example
There are 3 possible values.
  • 1.0
  • 1.1
  • 1.2
URI
Type
String
Description
The URI of the page that’s receiving the request.
For example: /home/home.jsp.
URI_ID_DERIVED
Type
ID
Description
The 18-character case insensitive ID of the URI of the page that’s receiving the request.
USER_ID
Type
Id
Description
The 15-character ID of the user who’s using Salesforce services through the UI or the API.
For example: 00530000009M943
USER_ID_DERIVED
Type
Id
Description
The 18-character case insensitive ID of the user who’s using Salesforce services through the UI or the API.
For example: 00590000000I1SNIA0.
USER_NAME
Type
String
Description
The username that’s used for login.
USER_TYPE
Type
String
Description
The category of user license.
Possible values are:
  • CsnOnly—Users whose access to the application is limited to Chatter. This user type includes Chatter Free and Chatter moderator users.
  • CspLitePortal—CSP Lite Portal license. Users whose access is limited because they’re organization customers and access the application through a customer portal or an Experience Cloud site.
  • CustomerSuccess—Customer Success license. Users whose access is limited because they’re organization customers and access the application through a customer portal.
  • Guest—Users whose access is limited so that your customers can view and interact with your site without logging in.
  • PowerCustomerSuccess—Power Customer Success license. Users whose access is limited because they’re organization customers and access the application through a customer portal. Users with this license type can view and edit data they directly own or data owned by or shared with users below them in the customer portal role hierarchy.
  • PowerPartner—Power Partner license. Users whose access is limited because they’re partners and typically access the application through a partner portal or site.
  • SelfService—Users whose access is limited because they’re organization customers and access the application through a self-service portal.
  • Standard—Standard user license. This user type also includes Salesforce Platform and Salesforce Platform One user licenses, and admins for this org.