---
title: "Tracking Team Activity with Audit Trail"
description: "Audit Trail lets you track, filter, and review all team member actions in HelpDocs."
url: "https://support.helpdocs.io/article/i4k1s3j8kh-getting-team-event-history-with-audit-trail"
category: "Stats"
updated_at: "2026-07-31T13:13:57Z"
---

# Tracking Team Activity with Audit Trail

For large teams, knowing who's doing what matters. In HelpDocs we track each action a team member makes and allow [Owners and Admins](/article/CaKSeF9kSP-managing-users) to review it. Here's how it works.

Audit Trail is available on [certain plans](https://helpdocs.io/pricing)

### Finding Audit

There are a few ways to access Audit Trail in HelpDocs depending on what you're looking for:

Finding general Audit activities

Head to the **Audit** tab in the left hand sidebar.

![](https://files.helpdocs.io/Ytt2uahFxY/articles/i4k1s3j8kh/1785502983315/clipboard-20260731-130251-760.gif)

Activity for a specific article

Head to the article, click the ☰ More button, then click **View activity in Audit**.

![](https://files.helpdocs.io/Ytt2uahFxY/articles/i4k1s3j8kh/1785503152670/clipboard-20260731-130508-398.gif)

User-specific activity

Head to **Settings** > **Access** > **Members**, select the person you want to find activities for then click **View audit log** at the bottom of the table.

![](https://files.helpdocs.io/Ytt2uahFxY/articles/i4k1s3j8kh/1785503319441/clipboard-20260731-130758-566.gif)

### Filtering Audit Data

The first step is to narrow down your search. Do you want to see what everyone did this month? Maybe you'd like to see who's been creating articles recently.

[Embedded iframe](https://player.vimeo.com/video/1031548894)

Once you've narrowed down your search using the video above, here are all the filtering options available:

| Filter Type | Description                                  |
|-------------|----------------------------------------------|
| Date Range  | Start & end date for the events              |
| Users       | Specific team members to find activities for |
| Articles    |                                              |
| Categories  | Events within specific categories            |
| Event Names | Specific types of events                     |
| Data Types  | Create, Read, Update, or Delete actions      |

#### Example Audit

Here are some common scenarios and how to filter for them:

🆕 Track recent article updates

Set **Date Range** to **last 7 days** and **Data Type** to **Update**.

👋 Monitor new team member activity

Select the specific user and set **Event Names** to **Create Article** and **Update Article**.

🚮 Review deleted content

Set **Data Type** to **Delete** and choose relevant **Categories** if needed.

📂 Check article translation updates in the last month

Choose an article in **Include articles**, set **Event Name** to **Translate Article**, and **Date Range** to the last **30 days**.

#### Data Types

If you're familiar with development you'll likely have heard of CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete).

If not these are basically the four basic types of functions the majority of applications allow. In the Audit Trail you can view by Data Type and you'll get the following data back for each action:

| Data Type | Description                                                      |
|-----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Create    | Anything that is newly created, like an `Article Created` event. |
| Read      | Something was accessed, like a `Login` event.                    |
| Update    | Something was updated, like an `Article Updated` event.          |
| Delete    | Something was deleted, like a `Clip Deleted` event.              |

Use Data Type to find *all* activities for that event type.

For example the Event Types `Restore Article`, `Translate Article`, and `Update Article` are all **Update** Data Types.

### Download to CSV

You can quickly download the data on the page to CSV:

1. Filter your data
2. Click **Export** in the top right

The CSV file will download to your computer with all the filtered audit data, ready to open in Excel, Google Sheets, or any spreadsheet application.