{"id":8952,"date":"2023-11-24T16:54:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T16:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=8952"},"modified":"2025-07-31T11:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:52:12","password":"","slug":"monitor-who-is-using-google-chat-with-gat-shield","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/tech-tips\/monitor-who-is-using-google-chat-with-gat-shield\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitor who is using Google Chat with GAT Shield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\" data-sourcepos=\"1:1-1:105\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/products\/gat-shield\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GAT Shield<\/a> collects all browsing activity on the domain users&#8217; accounts to which it is deployed.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-sourcepos=\"1:1-1:105\">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).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-sourcepos=\"1:1-1:105\">You can find out how long the users have been using Google Chat from the <strong>Browsing section<\/strong> in GAT Shield. In the screenshot below, you can see the Browsing activity of the domain users in Google Chat.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-sourcepos=\"3:1-3:88\">Navigate to <strong>GAT Shield &gt; Audit &gt; Browsing\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-sourcepos=\"3:1-3:88\">Filter by website URL equal to <em><strong>mail.google.com\/chat <\/strong><\/em>and view all the browsing activity for this.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"auto\" data-sourcepos=\"3:1-3:88\"><strong>Search for a website<\/strong> URL equal to <em><strong>mail.google.com\/chat<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li dir=\"auto\" data-sourcepos=\"3:1-3:88\"><strong>Date<\/strong> &#8211; select the date you need<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-sourcepos=\"3:1-3:88\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13823 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2025-06-26-16_10_44-Shield.png\" alt=\"GAT Shield dashboard showing the browsing activity on google chat by filtering by the URL\" width=\"1911\" height=\"895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2025-06-26-16_10_44-Shield.png 1911w, https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2025-06-26-16_10_44-Shield-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2025-06-26-16_10_44-Shield-1024x480.png 1024w, https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2025-06-26-16_10_44-Shield-768x360.png 768w, https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2025-06-26-16_10_44-Shield-1536x719.png 1536w, https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2025-06-26-16_10_44-Shield-360x169.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1911px) 100vw, 1911px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-sourcepos=\"9:1-9:94\">This will give you the result for all users who are using Google Chat.<\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"auto\" data-sourcepos=\"23:1-23:114\">Monitor Google Chat<\/h3>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-sourcepos=\"25:1-25:164\">In the GAT Shield &gt; Audit area, we have the &#8220;chats&#8221; audit. This will show you all the chats that are happening in the domain between local users or local and external users.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-sourcepos=\"25:1-25:164\">Navigate to <strong>GAT Shield&gt; Audit &gt; Chats\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-sourcepos=\"11:1-11:113\">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.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"auto\" data-sourcepos=\"11:1-11:113\">Local users will be shown with blue text<\/li>\n<li dir=\"auto\" data-sourcepos=\"11:1-11:113\">External users will be shown with red text<\/li>\n<li dir=\"auto\" data-sourcepos=\"11:1-11:113\">Unknown users will be shown with the yellow text<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-sourcepos=\"11:1-11:113\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13824\" src=\"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2025-06-26-16_34_08-Shield.png\" alt=\"view metadata of chats that occured in the domnain and recipients \" width=\"1911\" height=\"897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2025-06-26-16_34_08-Shield.png 1911w, https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2025-06-26-16_34_08-Shield-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2025-06-26-16_34_08-Shield-1024x481.png 1024w, https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2025-06-26-16_34_08-Shield-768x360.png 768w, https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2025-06-26-16_34_08-Shield-1536x721.png 1536w, https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2025-06-26-16_34_08-Shield-360x169.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1911px) 100vw, 1911px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GAT Shield collects all browsing activity on the domain users&#8217; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[75],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[26],"class_list":["post-8952","docs","type-docs","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","doc_category-google-meet","doc_tag-gat-shield"],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":233,"total_views":"937","reactions":{"happy":"1","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"jgrimes","author_nicename":"jgrimes","author_url":"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/author\/jgrimes\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Google Meet","term_url":"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/tech-tips-category\/google-meet\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[{"term_name":"GAT Shield","term_url":"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/tech-tips-tag\/gat-shield\/"}],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Monitor who is using Google Chat with GAT Shield - GAT Knowledge Base<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Efficiently Monitor Google Chat in your organization with GAT Shield. 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