---
title: "Create an audit log destination"
method: POST
path: "/v3/audit-log-destinations"
tags: ["Audit Log Destinations"]
---

# Create an audit log destination

`POST /v3/audit-log-destinations`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://my.orq.ai`
- URL: `https://my.orq.ai/v3/audit-log-destinations`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Creates a signed webhook destination that receives every audit log event recorded in the workspace from this point on. The signing secret is returned once in this response and never again.

## Request body

- CreateAuditLogDestinationRequest
  - `display_name` string, required: Required. Human-readable destination name, unique within the workspace.
  - `description` string: Optional. Description of the receiving system.
  - `url` string, required: Required. Absolute HTTPS URL. Private and loopback addresses are rejected.

## Response `200`

OK

- CreateAuditLogDestinationResponse
  - `destination` AuditLogDestination, required
    - `id` string, required
    - `display_name` string, required: Human-readable destination name, unique within the workspace.
    - `description` string: Optional description of the receiving system.
    - `url` string, required: HTTPS endpoint that receives signed audit log events.
    - `status` 'AUDIT_LOG_DESTINATION_STATUS_ACTIVE' | 'AUDIT_LOG_DESTINATION_STATUS_PAUSED', required
    - `signing_secret_hint` string: Last four characters of the current signing secret, to tell rotations apart.
    - `secret_rotated_at` string, date-time: Time the current signing secret was issued.
    - `created_at` string, date-time, required
    - `updated_at` string, date-time, required
    - `created_by_id` string
    - `updated_by_id` string
  - `signing_secret` string, required: Signing secret for verifying deliveries. Shown only in this response; store it securely.

## Other responses

- `401`: Authentication required. See https://docs.orq.ai/reference/errors for the error codes.

## Changes

> 554 revisions in range; 71 not diffed.

- **2026-10-23** `0b4e519a544f`: 1 info
  - endpoint added
- **2026-10-23** `732aed62833a`: 1 breaking
  - api path removed without deprecation
- **2026-10-22** `4f826b2c3a0e`: 1 info
  - endpoint added
- **2026-10-22** `8f0dc569f247`: 1 breaking
  - api path removed without deprecation
- **2026-10-21** `08b800d640e6`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/orq-ai/apis/orq-ai-api/changes/v3/audit-log-destinations/post.md)

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