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Audit Log: A User Guide

What is the Audit Log?

CrowdFiber's Audit Log provides a chronological record of activity regarding the creation, update, or deletion of records in several areas of the CrowdFiber platform.

Audit Log records are created during a logged-in user's/API's interaction with the CrowdFiber platform.

Data Stored in the Audit Log

Audit Log records are identified by Models and Operations.

Models - The type of record that was created, updated, or deleted/destroyed.

Examples of Models
  • Addresses
  • Address Connections: the relationship between an address and a contact record, order record, or address list
  • Address Searches/Leads
  • Companies
  • Contacts
  • Deals
  • Markup Edits: the changes to the HTML or CSS of your website
  • Orders
  • Quotes
  • Terms: requests that are manually sent to a customer by an Admin User (post-registration) and accepted during the registration process
  • Users
  • Zones

Operations - The creation, update, or deletion of records.

Examples of Operations
  • Create: the creation of a new record
  • Update: the edit of an existing record
  • Destroy: the deletion of a record

How to Read an Audit Log Record

The Audit Log contains the following columns of information:

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  • ID - unique ID for the Audit Log record.
  • Date/Time - Precise day and time the creation, update or deletion/destruction of a record occurred.
  • User - User Record of the user or action that modified the record.
  • Operation - Type of operation performed (Create, Update, Destroy).
  • Visit - Unique ID of the record that was affected in this operation.
  • Changes Made - Record(s) affected by the operation; contains the data that existed in the record before and after the change was executed.

Here is an example Audit Log entry:

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This record shows

On February 24 2025 at 1:35 pm user CrowdFiber Admin deleted an order record (ID #343)