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title: "Audit Logging"
slug: "audit-logging"
updated: 2024-01-25T19:06:08Z
published: 2024-01-25T19:06:08Z
canonical: "wiki.cobblestonesoftware.com/audit-logging"
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# Audit Logging

### **Audit Logging**

**Searching & Reporting: Audit Logging** Contract Insight includes an audit log that tracks system activity. Typical events that are tracked are:

- Who logged in when
- Failed log in attempts
- Standard record actions (creation, updates, deletes)
- Tracking users that view contract records and documents
- Tracking attached documents and/or files
- Tracking the viewing of attached files and/or documents
- Tracking e-mails sent via the one-off e-mail function available on the Contract Record Details
- Tracking e-mails sent via the Task E-Mailer Job
- Tracking changes to field values (before and after snap-shots)
- And much more...

The audit log tracks changes and audit history down to the user, record, and field level with history tracking. The system tracks original values, dates/times, and employees that changed field data.

**Audit and History Log for an Individual Record** Standard End-Users may view an individual records history via **View History** on the side menu of many of the detail record pages. Below is an example of the **View History** for the contract details screen. ![Individual Record View History](https://cdn.document360.io/e3626857-1fb5-4e27-b278-2d3fc5508be4/Images/Documentation/1(293).png)After clicking the **View History**, the system displays a listing of audit events for the record. The history log can be filtered and sorted by column header (include name, date, event text) and exported to a spreadsheet. ![Export to Excel History](https://cdn.document360.io/e3626857-1fb5-4e27-b278-2d3fc5508be4/Images/Documentation/2(221).png)

**System Wide Audit Log** ![System Wide Audit Log Report](https://cdn.document360.io/e3626857-1fb5-4e27-b278-2d3fc5508be4/Images/Documentation/3(165).png) Contract Insight Enterprise offers a system wide view and analysis of the audit log. Authorized Administrator and Super Users may create user-defined searches (queries) that enables the analysis of audited events system-wide. The audit log is found by creating an ad-hoc search (report) from the **Reports/Searches** menu. [ This section does not cover how to create complex ad-hoc searching, however it does cover a basic log file search.]

![Overview naming the report](https://cdn.document360.io/e3626857-1fb5-4e27-b278-2d3fc5508be4/Images/Documentation/4(121).png)

![Select Primary table and Sub-Tables](https://cdn.document360.io/e3626857-1fb5-4e27-b278-2d3fc5508be4/Images/Documentation/Ad-Hoc_Table(1).PNG)

Click **Save and Continue**.

The system displays the **Ad-Hoc Report Manager: 2. Field Selection screen**. We selected the Employee First Name, Last Name, Event text, Date, Days until Event Date, and the Table on which the event happened.

![Select Fields](https://cdn.document360.io/e3626857-1fb5-4e27-b278-2d3fc5508be4/Images/Documentation/Ad-Hoc_Fields(1).png)

Click **Save Field Selections**.

Next, select **Filter & Conditions** to set our criteria. In this example, we are going to filter by **Days Until Event Date** is **greater than****-30** (since the event is a historic event and took place in the past we use a negative value for this condition).

![Filters/Conditions](https://cdn.document360.io/e3626857-1fb5-4e27-b278-2d3fc5508be4/Images/Documentation/Ad-Hoc_Filters.png)

Once we save or Filter conditions, the rows are displayed.

We can re-run this report at any time and filter and/or export it by navigating to **Reports/Searches** > **Ad-Hoc Reports/Searches** > **My Ad-Hoc Reports/Searches** to open a list of all of the Ad-Hoc Reports/Searches created.