Setup Audit Trail helps you track recent backend changes and other administrator activities made over the past six months. This can be especially useful in organizations with multiple administrators. Only system administrator can view the Setup Audit Trail.
Go into Setup and type View Setup Audit Trail in the Quick Find box, then select View Setup Audit Trail:
To download setup history for the past 180 days, click Download as shown below.
After 180 days, setup records are deleted.
The history shows the 20 most recent setup changes made to your org. It lists the date of the change, who made it, and what the change was. If an internal user (like an admin or support representative) makes a setup change on behalf of an end-user, the other user's name column shows the internal username. For example, if a user grants login access to an admin and the admin makes a setup change, the admin’s username is listed.
What does Setup Audit Trail track?
Administration
Company information
Default settings like language, locale, and multiple currencies
Company messages
Users, portal users, roles, permission sets, and profiles
Email addresses for any user
Record types (including creating or renaming record types and assigning record types to profiles)
Security and Sharing Settings
Data Management
Mass deleting records, including when a mass delete exceeds the user’s Recycle Bin limit on deleted records
Data Export requests
Mass transfer usage
Use of the Data Import Wizard
Sandbox deletions
Development
Apex classes and triggers
Visualforce pages, custom components, and static resources
Lightning pages
Action link templates
Custom settings
Custom metadata types and records
Remote access definitions
Salesforce Sites settings
Various Setup
API usage metering notification, creating
Process automation settings
Approval processes
Workflow actions, creating or deleting
Flows
Packages from Salesforce AppExchange that were installed or uninstalled
The Audit Trail is also useful for troubleshooting as it captures date and time, allowing you to trace user issues back to a specific change. It’s also a great record of all the work you’ve done to customize Salesforce.
Please reach out to Product Support (rethinkcrm@buildout.com) if you have any questions about viewing your Setup Audit Trail.