Logged activities

Sitecore Common Audit Log records user activities as they occur in supported Sitecore digital experience platform (DXP) applications. Every audit log includes:

  • What activity occurred.

  • When the activity occurred and in which Sitecore DXP app.

  • Which user performed the activity.

  • Which entity was affected by the activity.

Entities

The entity can be a feature or data in a Sitecore DXP app.

For example, when a user creates or deletes an experience in Sitecore Personalize, the entity is the experience.

Here are the activities that Sitecore Common Audit Log records for Sitecore DXP apps:

Example audit log

Here's an example audit log. In the log object:

  • The system key contains the name of the Sitecore DXP app where the activity occurred.

  • The action key contains the activity that occurred.

  • The sourceSystemUserContext object contains which user performed the activity.

  • The entity object contains the entity affected by the activity.

RequestResponse
{
  "system": "Personalize",
  "time": "2025-01-08 08:17:32",
  "action": "experience_deleted",
  "entity": {
    "id": "574eedc0-79d9-4375-93ad-873737d4c8e1",
    "type": "EXPERIENCE",
    "extensions": {
      "entityLevelExtension": "AnyCustomValues"
    }
  },
  "sourceSystemUserContext": {
    "id": "[email protected]",
    "anonymousId": "dxGef14c",
    "IPAddress": "198.10.12.01",
    "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
  },
  "extensions": {
    "eventLevelExtension": "AnyCustomValues"
  }
}

In this example, user [email protected] deleted an experience in Sitecore Personalize on January 8, 2025.

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