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Admins can monitor Apps Script project actions and daily usage in the Google Admin console.
You can view actions taken on Apps Script projects through Drive log events reporting in the Admin console.
The Admin console allows viewing the daily number of people using Apps Script and the number of projects used per day.
Admins with specific Google Workspace accounts can control access to external domains for Apps Script.
Administrators have the ability to turn Apps Script on or off for their organization or disable individual Apps Script projects.
You can monitor the actions people take on Apps Script projects and how manypeople use Apps Script per day in theGoogle Admin console.
View Apps Script audit logs
You can view the actions people take on Apps Script projects with Drive logevents reporting in the Admin console. Take the following steps:
- Open your Admin console atadmin.google.com.
- Click Menu>Reporting>Audit and investigation>Drive log events. IfReportingdoesn't appear, clickShow more.
- ClickFilter>Add a filter>Document type.
- In theDocument type section, selectGoogle Script and clickApply.
- ClickSearch.
View how many people use Apps Script
To view the number of people in your organization using Apps Script each day andhow many Apps Script projects people use per day, take the following steps:
- Open your Admin console atadmin.google.com.
- Click Menu>Reporting>Reports>Apps Reports>Apps Script. IfReportingdoesn't appear, clickShow more.
- To export the data, click Download
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The charts show data for the last 6 months and include all scriptexecutions–meaning any time a script runs.
Control access to external domains
Note: You must have a Business Plus, Enterprise, Education Standard,Teaching and Learning Upgrade, or Education Plus Google Workspace account tocontrol access to external domains.By default, scripts can send or fetch data using any URL withURL FetchService. As an administrator, you cancontrol which external domains your users can access throughApps Script. Refer toAllow only certain external connectionsfor Apps Script and Sheets.
Turn off Apps Script
As an administrator, you can turn Apps Script on or off forpeople in your organization.Refer toTurn Apps Script on or off for users
Turn off a specific Apps Script project
You can turn off an individual Apps Script project by deletingits associatedCloud project. After you shut down a Cloud project, allexecutions of the scriptproject stop. Refer toShutting down (deleting) projects.
To delete a Cloud project, you must have delete permissions on theproject. Togive delete permissions for projects in your organization, refer toAssigndelete permission for all Cloud projects in an organization.
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Last updated 2025-12-11 UTC.