Reporting rules are now activity rules

Reporting rules are now activity rules

What’s changing
To simplify the admin experience for creating rules and monitoring alerts, we are combining reporting rules with activity rules:

Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Enterprise Essentials Plus, Education Plus, Cloud Identity Premium, Chrome Enterprise Premium and Enterprise Standard customers will retain all the functionality of the activity rules experience and can now also create rules without thresholds. Thresholds are applied cumulatively across user actions, not on a per-activity basis.

For Google Workspace Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, and Enterprise Essentials customers, all existing reporting rules will automatically be converted to activity rules. Admins gain the ability to configure notification frequencies and access more descriptive alerts. However, applying thresholds and actions to rules are not available for these Workspace editions.

Who’s impacted
Admins

Why it matters
Reporting rules inform admins what happened, while activity rules help admins control what happens. By combining reporting rules with activity rules, admins receive the benefits of a more streamlined workflow with additional ways to work with rules and gain insights from more detailed reporting.

Additional details
Additionally, “Reporting rules” will be shown as “Activity rules” in various locations within the Admin console, including the “Add rules” user interface at Security > Investigation tool > Create activity rule.

Getting started
Admins:

• Visit the Help Center to learn more about creating and managing activity rules.
• With this change, admins with the “Reports” privilege have automatically been assigned the “Activity Rules View” and “Activity Rules Manage privileges”. Super admins have these privileges assigned by default. These privileges can also be assigned to a custom admin role.
  End users:
• There is no end user action required.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Currently available.

Availability
Available for Google Workspace:

• Business Starter, Standard and Plus
• Enterprise Standard and Plus
• Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus
• Education Fundamentals, Standard and Plus
• Cloud Identity Premium

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Create and manage activity rules