Set up Chrome Enterprise Core
3. Turn on Chrome browser and profile reporting
As an administrator, you can view reports in the Google Admin console to review managed Chrome browser and profile information in your organization.
Turn on managed browser reporting
Turn on managed browser reporting to get a detailed view of Chrome browsers and extensions used in your organization. For details, go to View Chrome browser details.
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Sign in with an administrator account to the Google Admin console.
If you aren’t using an administrator account, you can’t access the Admin console.
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Go to Menu and then Devices > Chrome > Settings. The User & browser settings page opens by default.
Requires having the Mobile Device Management administrator privilege.
If you signed up for Chrome Enterprise Core, go to Menu and then Chrome browser > Settings.
- Select your top-level organizational unit, so that all child organizations will inherit the policy.
- Go to Browser reporting.
- Click Managed browser reporting.
- Select Enable managed browser cloud reporting.
- Click Save.
- Restart Chrome browser on users' devices so that it picks up the new policy.
You should then get a report within a minute of Chrome browser restarting. Once a report gets sent, the rest of the fields in the Browser List page will be populated, as well as the Details page. As new reports come in, these fields update accordingly. Currently, report frequency is set to once every 24 hours. If needed, use the Frequency of browser status reporting in hours setting to change the number of hours between successive reports. Enter a value between 3 and 24 hours.
Turn on managed profile reporting
Turn on managed profile reporting to view profile-level information, browser-level information, and limited device information. For details, go to View Chrome browser profile details.
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Sign in with an administrator account to the Google Admin console.
If you aren’t using an administrator account, you can’t access the Admin console.
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Go to Menu and then Devices > Chrome > Settings. The User & browser settings page opens by default.
Requires having the Mobile Device Management administrator privilege.
If you signed up for Chrome Enterprise Core, go to Menu and then Chrome browser > Settings.
- Select your top-level organizational unit, so that all child organizations will inherit the policy.
- Go to Browser reporting.
- Click Managed profile reporting.
- Select Enable managed profile reporting for managed users.
- Click Save.
You should then get a report within a minute of Chrome browser restarting. Once a report gets sent, the rest of the fields in the Profile List page will be populated, as well as the Details page. As new reports come in, these fields update accordingly. Currently, report frequency is set to once every 24 hours. If needed, use the Frequency of browser status reporting in hours setting to change the number of hours between successive reports. Enter a value between 3 and 24 hours.
Turn on browser event reporting
Turn on browser event reporting to report browser events such as password reuse, malware downloads, extension installs, and make these available in the Admin Console.
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Sign in with an administrator account to the Google Admin console.
If you aren’t using an administrator account, you can’t access the Admin console.
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Go to Menu and then Devices > Chrome > Settings. The User & browser settings page opens by default.
Requires having the Mobile Device Management administrator privilege.
If you signed up for Chrome Enterprise Core, go to Menu and then Chrome browser > Settings.
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To apply the setting to all users and enrolled browsers, leave the top organizational unit selected. Otherwise, select a child organizational unit.
- Go to Browser reporting.
- Click Event reporting.
- Select Enable event reporting.
- (Optional) Configure additional settings. Choose the reported event types that you need, based on what type of content you want to send for analysis. For details, see Chrome audit log.
- Default event types—Select All types to allow Chrome browser to report all of the default event types. Or, select Customized and then select the specific event types that you need. Default Chrome threat and data protection events include malware transfer, password reuse, and unsafe site visits.
- Optional event types—If needed, check the Login and Password Breach boxes, and enter URL patterns.
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Click Save. Or, you might click Override for an organizational unit.
To later restore the inherited value, click Inherit.
What gets uploaded from users' devices
Applies to managed browser reporting
Browser policies
Browsers & profiles
Extension policies
Extensions & plugins
Machine information
After setup
- Set up Chrome browser user-level management
- See all Cloud-managed Chrome browser topics
- See detailed information in the Chrome Enterprise Core whitepaper