Changelog → Audit log — filter + export for compliance reviews

Released

Audit log — filter + export is now available on all accounts at Grow tier and above. Navigate to the admin → Operations → Audit log to access the filter bar and Export button.

The problem this solves

Before this change, the audit log was a single chronological feed. Every entry since your site launched, newest first, no way to narrow it down. Running a monthly ops review meant scrolling back through hundreds of system events to find the twenty that mattered. Preparing a compliance report meant screenshots — one at a time, however many pages deep the relevant window sat.

For SGEN Digital' ops team, their quarterly compliance review had become a half-day exercise: load the log, scroll to the right week, screenshot a page, scroll more, screenshot again, repeat until the full range was documented. They weren't reviewing the log — they were manually building the record from it.

That workflow is now gone.

What changed

The audit log now has two new controls: a filter bar and an Export button.

Filter bar

Four filter dimensions, combinable:

FilterWhat it scopes
UserEvents triggered by a specific admin account
Date rangeBounded window — start date, end date, or both
Event typeCategory of action (login, content edit, settings change, user role change, etc.)
Affected resourceThe specific page, post, user record, or setting touched
Apply one filter or stack all four. The log updates in place — no page reload. The visible count updates as you narrow.

Export button

Once you have the log scoped to the range you want, Export downloads the filtered result as a CSV file. The export includes every column the on-screen log shows: timestamp, user, event type, affected resource, and IP address. The filename carries the date range so the file is self-documenting in an archive folder.

Export is scoped to the current filter state. If no filters are active, the export covers your full audit history.

Before and after

Before: Chronological-only feed. No filtering. No export. Compliance reviews required manual scrolling + screenshots to build an evidence record.

After: Filter to the exact user, date window, event type, or resource — then export that scoped result as CSV in one click. The record is built for you.

Who benefits

Ops teams running monthly reviews — scope to a date range, export, done. The monthly ops record is a ten-second task instead of a forty-five-minute scroll session.

Compliance teams preparing audits — filter by event type to show only settings changes or user role modifications. Export as CSV and attach directly to the compliance package.

Security teams investigating incidents — filter by user + date range to reconstruct a specific session's activity trail without scrolling past unrelated events.

SGEN Digital — quarterly compliance walkthrough

SGEN ops lead, Rosa, runs a quarterly compliance review covering the previous three months of admin activity. Here is how she uses the updated log:

  1. Open the admin → Operations → Audit log.
  2. Set Date range to the quarter start and end dates.
  3. Set Event type to Settings change and User role change — the two categories their compliance policy tracks.
  4. Review the filtered list on screen. 47 entries for the quarter, down from 4,200 in the unfiltered feed.
  5. Click Export — downloads audit-log-2026-01-01-2026-03-31.csv.
  6. Attach the CSV to the quarterly compliance package.
What previously took Rosa the better part of a morning now takes under three minutes.

Where to find it

the admin → Operations → Audit log

The filter bar sits directly above the log table. The Export button is in the top-right corner of the log panel, next to the entry count.

Access requires an admin account with Operations access. Account owners and admins have this by default. Role-restricted accounts will see the log but not the Export button if their role excludes data export.

Migration note

No action required. The filter and export controls appear automatically in the existing audit log view. All historic entries — everything logged since your account was created — are available to filter and export. No data was changed or removed.

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