Directory Changes (last 30 days)
The question it answers: What changed in Entra ID in the last 30 days, and who changed it?
What changed in Entra ID: role assignments, policy edits, application consent, credential changes, user and group management. Source: Microsoft Graph auditLogs/directoryAudits. Microsoft retains this data for a limited window (days to weeks depending on licence tier), and this report is capped at 5000 rows - so it is a recent-activity view, not an archive.
At a glance
Section titled “At a glance”| Where in the app | Entra ID › Security › Directory Changes |
| Workload | Entra ID |
| Kind | Table |
| Data | Built from the tenant data IntensiveReports keeps in memory and refreshes in the background, so it opens at once. |
| Licence | Audit log retention is set by tenant licence - roughly 7 days on Free and 30 days with Microsoft Entra ID P1/P2. |
| Report id (API and MCP) | entra.security.directory-changes |
Columns
Section titled “Columns”| Column | Key | Type | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| When | ActivityDateTime | DateTime | When the change happened |
| Activity | ActivityDisplayName | Status | The audited activity; sensitive ones (roles, policies, consent, credentials) are flagged |
| Category | Category | Text | |
| Initiated by | InitiatedBy | Text | User principal name or application name |
| Actor type | InitiatedByType | Text | User, Application or Unknown |
| Target | TargetResourcesString | Text | Changed objects as type: name |
| Result | Result | Status |
Filters
Section titled “Filters”| Filter | Key (API) | On when the page opens |
|---|---|---|
| Sensitive changes | sensitive | No |
| Failures | failures | No |
What it needs
Section titled “What it needs”Licence: Audit log retention is set by tenant licence - roughly 7 days on Free and 30 days with Microsoft Entra ID P1/P2.
Application permissions on the IntensiveReports app registration (all permissions):
| Permission | API | What it allows | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
AuditLog.Read.All | Microsoft Graph | Read all audit log data |
Data sources it reads
GET /v1.0/auditLogs/directoryAudits
Through the API and MCP
Section titled “Through the API and MCP”GET /ir-api/v1/reports/entra.security.directory-changes?size=100GET /ir-api/v1/reports/entra.security.directory-changes?filter=sensitiveAn AI assistant reads it with the MCP tool get_report and the id entra.security.directory-changes. The client needs the Read grant for Entra ID. See Using the API.