For every organization, auditing plays a vital role in keeping their data organized and secure. Organizations nowadays want to keep track of the activity of their employees and monitor their user logins. Keeping all this in mind, Salesforce Marketing Cloud has introduced a customizable feature called Audit Trail that offers security admin users a wide array of features to monitor Salesforce Marketing Cloud access and other user activity records.
What is Audit Trail?
In Salesforce, Audit Trail provides the opportunity to trace the transformations done to the organization. It enables logging of all the types of modification such as personalization, security and data management, sharing, etc. Moreover, several administrators handling your salesforce environment make Audit Trail even more convenient. It assists in managing the catalog of all the modifications that have been done in the past six months. Also, it offers information about the changes, including how and when the changes happened.
Key Features Of Audit Trail
Monitor Login History: This helps monitor all the login history details of the users for the past six months. This feature records the information about the login details.
Fields History: This feature enables admins to select particular fields for tracking and displaying the field history in the user’s history list. This type of information can be retained for up to 18 months through the org. The data can be kept for up to 24 months via API.
Audit History: It is used in an organization that has more than one admin.
Which modifications are listed in the Audit Trail?
- Changes to fields and objects
- Deleted and added picklist values
- Profile, user, and role modifications
- Updates made by managed packages
Which changes are traced by Setup Audit Trail?
- Profiles
- Administration
- Data Management
- Permission Sets/Group
- Security and Sharing
- Using the Applications
- Development
- Various Setup
- Customization