diff --git a/devolutions-gateway/src/api/jrec/search.intent.md b/devolutions-gateway/src/api/jrec/search.intent.md
index 3bca911791..11e6880537 100644
--- a/devolutions-gateway/src/api/jrec/search.intent.md
+++ b/devolutions-gateway/src/api/jrec/search.intent.md
@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
 ## What is searched
 
-Search reads only the files listed under `artifacts` in `recording.json` whose type is `slog`.
-Recording files listed under `files` are not searched, a `.slog` recording included.
+Search covers the `.slog` files listed in `recording.json`, under `files` as well as under `artifacts`.
+`files` is searched so that Active Directory Console logs, which are pushed as recordings, are searchable, the ones already stored included, with no change to how they are pushed.
+Within a recording, the `.slog` files listed under `files` are searched first, then those listed under `artifacts`, by convention, in the order `recording.json` lists them and a recording pull zips them.
 Each log is searched once, even when the request repeats its recording ID or the manifest lists it twice.
 Search finds a recording and its logs where a recording pull does: in the folder named by the hyphenated recording ID, and only under a file name the pull accepts, so a log listed as `../outside.slog` is not searched.
 A log that is missing or cannot be read is skipped and the search goes on, as `rg` and `grep` go on past a file they cannot open.
 
 The query is matched literally, as `rg -F` and `grep -F` do, so its spaces are part of it and an empty query matches every line.
 A line holding a JSON object is matched case-insensitively against the object's string values, at any depth and once unescaped; field names, numbers, booleans and null never match.
-Any other line is matched case-insensitively against its raw text, so that any kind of artifact, present or future, can be searched.
+Any other line is matched case-insensitively against its raw text, so that any kind of log, present or future, can be searched.
 A line cut at 256 KiB follows the same rule: what was read is matched by its string values when it parses as a JSON object, and as raw text otherwise.
 
 Values are matched rather than raw text because users search the text they see: raw matching would make a field name such as `description` match every line, and would miss text that JSON escapes, such as `DOMAIN\user` stored as `DOMAIN\\user`.
@@ -57,4 +58,4 @@ A log replaced while paging, as an AI analysis rerun does, is read from the curs
 ## Later
 
 Regular expressions or wildcards, a total hit count, and combining words are wanted later, and the request shape must not preclude them.
-Choosing which artifact kinds to search, or searching other sources such as the `.slog` recordings under `files`, is wanted later; the request shape must not preclude it either.
+Choosing which file types to search, such as `.cast` besides `.slog`, is wanted later; the request shape must not preclude it either.
diff --git a/devolutions-gateway/src/api/jrec/search.rs b/devolutions-gateway/src/api/jrec/search.rs
index afb7c7dcab..4d4a0cf2e3 100644
--- a/devolutions-gateway/src/api/jrec/search.rs
+++ b/devolutions-gateway/src/api/jrec/search.rs
@@ -146,9 +146,9 @@ pub(crate) struct RecordingSearchResponse {
 #[derive(Serialize)]
 #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
 pub(crate) struct RecordingSearchHit {
-    /// The recording whose artifact holds the line.
+    /// The recording whose log holds the line.
     recording_id: Uuid,
-    /// Name of the `.slog` artifact holding the line, as listed in `recording.json`.
+    /// Name of the `.slog` file holding the line, as listed in `recording.json`.
     file_name: String,
     /// Number of the line in the file, counting from 1.
     #[cfg_attr(feature = "openapi", schema(minimum = 1))]
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ pub(crate) struct RecordingSearchHit {
     truncated: bool,
 }
 
-/// Searches the `.slog` artifacts, such as AI analysis logs, of recordings stored on this instance
+/// Searches the `.slog` files of recordings stored on this instance, such as Active Directory Console logs
 ///
 /// The query is a case-insensitive substring, and an empty query matches every line.
 /// In a line holding a JSON object, it is matched against the string values of the object at any depth, as they read
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ pub(crate) struct RecordingSearchHit {
 /// Any other line, such as one still being written, is matched as raw text.
 /// A line longer than 256 KiB is matched on its first 256 KiB only, by the same rule, so a cut JSON object is usually
 /// matched as raw text.
-/// Only the files listed under `artifacts` in `recording.json` with the `slog` type are searched.
+/// Only the files listed in `recording.json` with the `slog` type are searched, under `files` and under `artifacts`.
 /// Recordings without a readable `recording.json` and IDs with no recording on this instance give no hits.
 ///
 /// Results come in pages.
@@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ impl Search {
     }
 }
 
-/// The `.slog` artifacts of one recording.
+/// The `.slog` files of one recording.
 struct RecordingLogs {
     recording_id: Uuid,
     dir: Utf8PathBuf,
@@ -781,16 +781,24 @@ struct RecordingLogs {
     file_names: Vec<String>,
 }
 
-/// Lists the `.slog` artifacts of a recording, such as its AI analysis, from `recording.json`.
+/// Lists the `.slog` files of a recording from `recording.json`, those under `files` first, then the artifacts.
 async fn read_recording_logs(dir: Utf8PathBuf, recording_id: Uuid) -> Option<RecordingLogs> {
     #[derive(Deserialize)]
     #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
     struct Manifest {
         start_time: i64,
         #[serde(default)]
+        files: Vec<ManifestFile>,
+        #[serde(default)]
         artifacts: JrecArtifacts,
     }
 
+    #[derive(Deserialize)]
+    #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+    struct ManifestFile {
+        file_name: String,
+    }
+
     let path = dir.join("recording.json");
 
     // Every search reads every manifest again, so a failure here repeats on each search.
@@ -806,9 +814,10 @@ async fn read_recording_logs(dir: Utf8PathBuf, recording_id: Uuid) -> Option<Rec
     // A log listed twice would be searched twice.
     let mut seen = HashSet::new();
     let file_names = manifest
-        .artifacts
-        .into_file_names()
+        .files
         .into_iter()
+        .map(|file| file.file_name)
+        .chain(manifest.artifacts.into_file_names())
         .filter(|file_name| {
             is_safe_recording_file_name(file_name)
                 && Utf8Path::new(file_name)
@@ -1360,20 +1369,47 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(Cursor::decode(&cursor).is_some(), accepted);
     }
 
+    // oracle: intent devolutions-gateway/src/api/jrec/search.intent.md §What is searched
+    #[rstest]
+    #[case::twice_in_artifacts(
+        r#"{"startTime":100,"artifacts":{"ai-analysis":[{"fileName":"ai-analysis-0.slog"},{"fileName":"ai-analysis-0.slog"}]}}"#
+    )]
+    #[case::in_files_and_in_artifacts(
+        r#"{"startTime":100,"files":[{"fileName":"ai-analysis-0.slog"}],"artifacts":{"ai-analysis":[{"fileName":"ai-analysis-0.slog"}]}}"#
+    )]
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn lists_a_log_once_when_the_manifest_repeats_it(#[case] manifest: &str) {
+        let root = tempfile::tempdir().expect("temp dir");
+        std::fs::write(root.path().join("recording.json"), manifest).expect("write manifest");
+        let dir = Utf8PathBuf::from_path_buf(root.path().to_owned()).expect("UTF-8 path");
+
+        let recording = read_recording_logs(dir, Uuid::nil()).await.expect("readable manifest");
+
+        assert_eq!(recording.file_names, ["ai-analysis-0.slog"]);
+    }
+
     // oracle: intent devolutions-gateway/src/api/jrec/search.intent.md §What is searched
     #[tokio::test]
-    async fn lists_a_log_once_when_the_manifest_repeats_it() {
+    async fn lists_logs_in_manifest_order_files_first() {
         let root = tempfile::tempdir().expect("temp dir");
         std::fs::write(
             root.path().join("recording.json"),
-            r#"{"startTime":100,"artifacts":{"ai-analysis":[{"fileName":"ai-analysis-0.slog"},{"fileName":"ai-analysis-0.slog"}]}}"#,
+            r#"{"startTime":100,"files":[{"fileName":"recording-1.slog"},{"fileName":"recording-0.slog"}],"artifacts":{"ai-analysis":[{"fileName":"ai-analysis-1.slog"},{"fileName":"ai-analysis-0.slog"}]}}"#,
         )
         .expect("write manifest");
         let dir = Utf8PathBuf::from_path_buf(root.path().to_owned()).expect("UTF-8 path");
 
         let recording = read_recording_logs(dir, Uuid::nil()).await.expect("readable manifest");
 
-        assert_eq!(recording.file_names, ["ai-analysis-0.slog"]);
+        assert_eq!(
+            recording.file_names,
+            [
+                "recording-1.slog",
+                "recording-0.slog",
+                "ai-analysis-1.slog",
+                "ai-analysis-0.slog"
+            ]
+        );
     }
 
     /// Lists the recordings of a root holding a folder per name, each with a manifest that starts at the same time.
diff --git a/testsuite/tests/cli/dgw/recording_search.rs b/testsuite/tests/cli/dgw/recording_search.rs
index f624e503c0..0fca83eceb 100644
--- a/testsuite/tests/cli/dgw/recording_search.rs
+++ b/testsuite/tests/cli/dgw/recording_search.rs
@@ -60,8 +60,9 @@ fn write_analysis_recording(root: &Path, id: Uuid, start_time: i64, log: &str) -
 }
 
 /// Two recordings whose AI analysis logs hold the searched text.
-/// The older one also holds it in a recorded `.slog`, in its video, and in a log outside the recording folder that
-/// its manifest points to, to show that only the `.slog` artifacts of a recording are searched.
+/// The older one also holds it in its recorded `.slog`, in its video, and in a log outside the recording folder that
+/// its manifest lists under both `files` and `artifacts`, to show that every `.slog` of a recording is searched, and
+/// nothing else.
 /// Its manifest also lists a log that is gone, and a third recording folder has no manifest, to show that neither
 /// fails the search.
 fn write_recordings(root: &Path) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
@@ -81,6 +82,7 @@ fn write_recordings(root: &Path) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
             "files": [
                 { "fileName": "recording-0.slog", "startTime": 100, "duration": 10 },
                 { "fileName": "recording-1.webm", "startTime": 100, "duration": 10 },
+                { "fileName": "../outside.slog", "startTime": 100, "duration": 10 },
             ],
             "artifacts": {
                 "ai-analysis": [
@@ -199,8 +201,9 @@ fn hit_summaries(body: &serde_json::Value) -> anyhow::Result<Vec<(String, String
 
 // oracle: intent devolutions-gateway/src/api/jrec/search.intent.md §What is searched
 // oracle: intent devolutions-gateway/src/api/jrec/search.intent.md §Request
+// oracle: intent devolutions-gateway/src/api/jrec/search.intent.md §Pages
 #[tokio::test]
-async fn searches_the_slog_artifacts_of_every_recording_newest_first() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+async fn searches_the_slog_files_of_every_recording_newest_first() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     let (_recordings, config_handle, _process) = start_with_recordings().await?;
 
     let response = search(
@@ -216,6 +219,7 @@ async fn searches_the_slog_artifacts_of_every_recording_newest_first() -> anyhow
         hit_summaries(&body)?,
         [
             (NEWER_RECORDING.to_string(), "ai-analysis-0.slog".to_owned(), 1),
+            (OLDER_RECORDING.to_string(), "recording-0.slog".to_owned(), 1),
             (OLDER_RECORDING.to_string(), "ai-analysis-0.slog".to_owned(), 2),
         ]
     );
@@ -224,6 +228,7 @@ async fn searches_the_slog_artifacts_of_every_recording_newest_first() -> anyhow
     Ok(())
 }
 
+// oracle: intent devolutions-gateway/src/api/jrec/search.intent.md §What is searched
 // oracle: intent devolutions-gateway/src/api/jrec/search.intent.md §Request
 #[tokio::test]
 async fn searches_each_listed_recording_once() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
@@ -243,7 +248,10 @@ async fn searches_each_listed_recording_once() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     let body: serde_json::Value = response.json().await?;
     assert_eq!(
         hit_summaries(&body)?,
-        [(OLDER_RECORDING.to_string(), "ai-analysis-0.slog".to_owned(), 2)]
+        [
+            (OLDER_RECORDING.to_string(), "recording-0.slog".to_owned(), 1),
+            (OLDER_RECORDING.to_string(), "ai-analysis-0.slog".to_owned(), 2),
+        ]
     );
 
     Ok(())
@@ -336,6 +344,7 @@ async fn pages_through_recordings_that_start_together_highest_id_first() -> anyh
     Ok(())
 }
 
+// oracle: intent devolutions-gateway/src/api/jrec/search.intent.md §What is searched
 // oracle: intent devolutions-gateway/src/api/jrec/search.intent.md §Request
 // oracle: intent devolutions-gateway/src/api/jrec/search.intent.md §Pages
 #[tokio::test]
@@ -352,10 +361,11 @@ async fn pages_through_listed_recordings_in_their_order() -> anyhow::Result<()>
     )
     .await?;
 
-    assert_eq!(pages.len(), 2);
+    assert_eq!(pages.len(), 3);
     assert_eq!(
         hit_summaries_of(&pages)?,
         [
+            (OLDER_RECORDING.to_string(), "recording-0.slog".to_owned(), 1),
             (OLDER_RECORDING.to_string(), "ai-analysis-0.slog".to_owned(), 2),
             (NEWER_RECORDING.to_string(), "ai-analysis-0.slog".to_owned(), 1),
         ]