As your company grows, more people will log into your platform, change settings, or change partners' billing or contact info. With so many cooks in the proverbial kitchen, it is difficult to maintain a cohesive overview of your entire platform, and you may find yourself pondering, “Wait, something changed?” “When did this happen?” and “Who changed it?”
For enterprise accounts, administrators now have access to a tool called Data Audit Logs, which tracks and shows changes made in your system. This feature is useful when you want to look back at what changes have occurred and, perhaps more importantly, which user made them.
To access the audit logs, go to Company > Data Audit Logs. The last ten events that were changed in the application will automatically be generated. Only the admin/creator can access the logs from their account.
On the Data Audit Log page, you have access to the following parameters for all of your data audit logs:
- Date – The date that the event occurred in UTC
- Type – The place where the change was made, e.g., in Offers, Partner profiles, etc.
- Name – This is a summary of what setting or account was changed
- Change – The type of change made, e.g., updated, deleted, inserted, etc.
- User IP Address – The IP address the change was made from
- User – The name of the user in the system who made the change
- User Type – The type of user can be either an Employee, Partner, or Advertiser
- Changes – This is the breakdown of each field that was changed in the log
You can see the changed fields for each log by clicking on the number in the ‘Changes’ column. This will show a modal showing all the changes made for this log.
In the example above, you can see two changes: the first states that the expiration date field was changed to a later date. The second field shows that the date modified field was updated.
Applying Filters to Your Audit Logs
If you are dealing with a large data log, the filtering function quickly finds the correct changelog for your query. Your filtering options are numerous. You can set a date range for the logs or drill it down by the user. You can also select which user and types of users or see which changes were done with API calls.
As you can see, the Data Audit Logs are a very useful tool for tracking your platform's status. With these logs, you can monitor the changes made throughout your platform, track down unwanted changes, and reset the original values.