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Overview

The Activity tab provides a comprehensive view of team activities within Forest. Every action performed by users is tracked and logged with complete context for accountability and compliance.

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What gets logged

Forest tracks all user activities across different areas: For each action, the system logs the user, targeted record(s), and timestamp. Forest tracks and stores these activities without records’ sensitive data except the ID/primary key.
Known Limitation: When collections share identical names with different capitalization (e.g., myCollection and MyCollection), activity tracking may incorrectly attribute actions between these collections.

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Viewing activity logs

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Global activity tab

Access the Activity tab to see all team activities across your Forest project. The logs show all actions with user information, affected records, and timestamps.

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Record-level activity

Individual records display their own activity history through a dedicated Activity tab on each record’s detail page, enabling team members to track specific record changes over time.

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Export all activities

Admin users can export comprehensive activity data including read operations:
  • Search activities
  • Filter usage
  • Record detail views
  • Dashboard access
  • Record exports
  • All write operations listed above
To export activity logs:
  1. Click the “Export” button in the Activity tab
  2. Select a date range
  3. Initiate the export
You will receive download links via email shortly after the export request.
API Access: Activity logs are also available programmatically through the Forest API. See the Activity Logs API reference for more information.

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Admin Logs

While Activity Logs track what operators do with your data, Admin Logs track changes to your Forest project’s configuration, such as permission and access-management changes. They are kept separately from the data activity logs. Admin Logs are available through the Forest public API, which lists the admin logs for a project, most recent first. This endpoint is not self-service: contact us to enable access. See the Admin Logs API reference for details.