---
name: "swift-account-audit"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "swift-account"
version: "2.35.1-0+deb13u3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/swift-account-audit"
---

# swift-account-audit(1)

manually audit OpenStack Swift accounts

## NAME

swift-account-audit - manually audit OpenStack Swift accounts

## SYNOPSIS

**swift-account-audit** *\[options\]* *\[url 1\]* *\[url 2\]* *...*

## DESCRIPTION

The swift-account-audit cli tool can be used to audit the data for an account. It crawls the account, checking that all containers and objects can be found.

You can also feed a list of URLs to the script through stdin.

## OPTIONS

- **-c** *concurrency*

  Set the concurrency, default 50

- **-r** *ring dir*

  Ring locations, default */etc/swift*

- **-e** *filename*

  File for writing a list of inconsistent URLs

- **-d**

  Also download files and verify md5

## EXAMPLES

```
/usr/bin/swift-account-audit AUTH_88ad0b83-b2c5-4fa1-b2d6-60c597202076
/usr/bin/swift-account-audit AUTH_88ad0b83-b2c5-4fa1-b2d6-60c597202076/container/object
/usr/bin/swift-account-audit -e errors.txt AUTH_88ad0b83-b2c5-4fa1-b2d6-60c597202076/container
/usr/bin/swift-account-audit < errors.txt
/usr/bin/swift-account-audit -c 25 -d < errors.txt
```

## DOCUMENTATION

More in depth documentation in regards to **swift-account-audit** and also about OpenStack Swift as a whole can be found at **https://docs.openstack.org/swift/latest/** and **https://docs.openstack.org**