In this blog post, we discussed the various methods of accessing and exporting the Unified Audit Log (UAL). If you need a way to perform a quick and targeted search, you can leverage the Purview Compliance Portal. If you want to retrieve a small part of the UAL and export to JSON format, PowerShell has the Search-UnifiedAuditLog cmdlet. For larger organizations or those who need to continuously poll the UAL, there is the Microsoft 365 Management API.