---
type: "example"
title: "AuditEvent Example: auditevent-example-error"
resource: "AuditEvent"
example: "auditevent-example-error"
---
# AuditEvent Example: auditevent-example-error

## Narrative

Recording that an error has happened due to a client requesting that an Observation resource be Created on the Patient endpoint. Note that the OperationOutcome from failed transaction is recorded as an AuditEvent.entity.

## Example XML



```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
<AuditEvent xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://hl7.org/fhir ../../schema/auditevent.xsd">
	<id value="example-error"/>
	<text>
		<status value="generated"/>
		<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Recording that an error has happened due to a client requesting that an Observation resource be Created on the Patient endpoint. Note that the OperationOutcome from failed transaction is recorded as an AuditEvent.entity.</div>
	</text>
	<contained>
		<!-- contained OperationOutcome from failed transaction -->
		<OperationOutcome xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
			<id value="o1"/>
			<issue>
				<severity value="error"/>
				<code value="invalid"/>
				<details>
					<text value="Invalid pointer operation"/>
				</details>
			</issue>
		</OperationOutcome>
	</contained>
	<type>
		<coding>
			<system value="http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/audit-event-type"/>
			<code value="rest"/>
			<display value="Restful Operation"/>
		</coding>
	</type>
	<subtype>
		<coding>
			<system value="http://hl7.org/fhir/restful-interaction"/>
			<code value="create"/>
			<display value="create"/>
		</coding>
	</subtype>
	<action value="C"/>
	<recorded value="2017-09-07T23:42:24Z"/>
	<outcome>
		<code>
			<system value="http://hl7.org/fhir/issue-severity"/>
			<code value="error"/>
			<display value="Error"/>
		</code>
		<detail>
			<text value="Invalid request to create an Operation resource on the Patient endpoint."/>
		</detail>
	</outcome>
	<agent>
		<type>
			<coding>
				<system value="http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/extra-security-role-type"/>
				<code value="humanuser"/>
				<display value="human user"/>
			</coding>
		</type>
		<who>
			<identifier>
				<value value="95"/>
			</identifier>
			<display value="Grahame Grieve"/>
		</who>
		<requestor value="true"/>
	</agent>
	<agent>
		<!-- Source active participant, the software making the . AlternativeUserId - Process ID -->
		<extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/auditevent-AlternativeUserID">
			<valueIdentifier>
				<type>
					<text value="process ID"/>
				</type>
				<value value="6580"/>
			</valueIdentifier>
		</extension>
		<type>
			<coding>
				<system value="http://dicom.nema.org/resources/ontology/DCM"/>
				<code value="110153"/>
				<display value="Source Role ID"/>
			</coding>
		</type>
		<who>
			<identifier>
				<system value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.2"/>
				<value value="2.16.840.1.113883.4.2"/>
			</identifier>
		</who>
		<requestor value="false"/>
		<networkString value="Workstation1.ehr.familyclinic.com"/>

	</agent>
	<source>
		<observer>
			<identifier>
				<value value="hl7connect.healthintersections.com.au"/>
			</identifier>
			<display value="Cloud"/>
		</observer>
		<type>
			<coding>
				<system value="http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/security-source-type"/>
				<code value="3"/>
				<display value="Web Server"/>
			</coding>
		</type>
	</source>

	<entity>
		<!-- record the OperationOutcome returned to the client -->
		<what>
			<reference value="#o1"/>
			<display value="transaction failed"/>
		</what>

	</entity>
</AuditEvent>
```