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    Overview

    The product helps you analyze Salesforce user activity within the wider context of your overall security posture. By monitoring Salesforce activities, you will be able to spot suspicious login attempts, track privileged user activity, and identify unauthorized access attempts or data modification.

    Creating a connected app with permissions in Salesforce

    • Login to your Salesforce account. Ensure that the user account with which you log in has enabled API.
      Note

      Please make sure you have the Salesforce Event Monitoring add-on license to fetch and analyze Salesforce logs in the product.

      Ensure that you enable the below permissions in case of using a non-admin user:

      Permissions required:

      • View event log files (for collecting event logs)
      • View setup and configuration (for collecting audit logs)
      • View role and role hierarchy(for collecting audit logs)
    • Navigate to Setup → Build → Create → Apps → Connected Apps.
    • Click on New and fill in the Connected App Name, Contact Email, and Callback URL.
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    • Enable the OAuth Settings and grant Full access.
    • Click Save. The Connected App will be created.
    • Click Continue to view the Consumer Key and Consumer Secret.
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    • Navigate to Setup → Administer → Manage Apps → Connected Apps.
    • Click on the newly created Connected App. Under OAuth Policies > IP Relaxation, select Relax IP restrictions from the drop-down.
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    • Click Save.

    How to get the Salesforce-client-url

    1. Go to the Salesforce login page and copy the URL from your browser's address bar.
    2. Paste the URL in the Login URL field(e.g., https://testingtech-ap48.my.salesforce.com).
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    Enter the Salesforce credentials in the product

    • Click on the Settings tab.
    • Navigate to Admin Settings -> Under Management - Domain and Accounts -> Configure Cloud Accounts.
    • Select the Cloud Account type as Salesforce.
    • Enter a Display Name in the given box.
    • Enter the Username, Password, Consumer Key, Consumer Secret and Login URL in the given fields to enable the product to start collecting logs.
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    Read also

    This document explained how to integrate Salesforce with the product to collect and analyze Salesforce activity logs. You can also refer to the following pages for related configurations and monitoring options: