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title: Monitor who is using Google Chat with GAT Shield
description: "[GAT Shield](https://gatlabs.com/products/gat-shield/) collects all browsing activity on the domain users' accounts to which it is deployed. We can configure a filter to check how long and how many times all users, or any user, have used Google Chat (or any…"
url: "https://gatlabs.com/knowledge/tech-tips/monitor-who-is-using-google-chat-with-gat-shield/"
updated: "2025-07-31"
category: Google Meet
tags:
  - GAT Shield
---

# Monitor who is using Google Chat with GAT Shield

[GAT Shield](https://gatlabs.com/products/gat-shield/) collects all browsing activity on the domain users' accounts to which it is deployed.

We can configure a filter to check how long and how many times all users, or any user, have used Google Chat (or any other site).

You can find out how long the users have been using Google Chat from the **Browsing section** in GAT Shield. In the screenshot below, you can see the Browsing activity of the domain users in Google Chat.

Navigate to **GAT Shield > Audit > Browsing **

Filter by website URL equal to ***mail.google.com/chat***and view all the browsing activity for this.

- **Search for a website** URL equal to ***mail.google.com/chat***
- **Date** - select the date you need

![GAT Shield dashboard showing the browsing activity on google chat by filtering by the URL](https://gatlabs.com/knowledge/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2025-06-26-16_10_44-Shield.png)

This will give you the result for all users who are using Google Chat.

### Monitor Google Chat

In the GAT Shield > Audit area, we have the "chats" audit. This will show you all the chats that are happening in the domain between local users or local and external users.

Navigate to **GAT Shield> Audit > Chats **

View the metadata for all the chats that are happening, apply any filter such as date or participants, as well as other information that might be useful.

- Local users will be shown with blue text
- External users will be shown with red text
- Unknown users will be shown with the yellow text

![view metadata of chats that occured in the domnain and recipients ](https://gatlabs.com/knowledge/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2025-06-26-16_34_08-Shield.png)