# AUDIT\_EVENTS Codes

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/audit-events-codes/1992>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [June 30, 2010, 3:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/audit-events-codes/1992 "2010-06-30T15:16:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 3:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/audit-events-codes/1992/1 "2010-06-30T15:16:43Z")

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What are the code explanations for the following columns in the audit table? I cannot find this in the help document.  
ACTION\_VALUE  
STATUS\_CODE  
ORIGINATING\_CONTEXT

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/audit-events-codes/1992/2 "2010-07-06T15:53:09Z")

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The meaning of these columns is somewhat dependent on the action being audited.

ACTION\_VALUE is the “value” associated with the row’s action. Most commonly, this is the value that was written on a tag write auditing event.

STATUS\_CODE is a OPC-UA format status code that defines whether the audited action was successful or not. This is not very user friendly when looking at the db directly, but try querying the history through [system.util.queryAuditLog](http://www.inductiveautomation.com/support/usermanuals/ignition/index.html?system_util_queryauditlog.htm) function for a more human-readable format for this column.

ORIGINATING\_CONTEXT is the part of the Ignition system where the audit event was generated.