The 60-second version
Every time a contact or a lead is created, edited or deleted, Exabloom writes one entry: who did it, what they did, when, and, for edits, the value before and after. You can read those entries in two places:
- Settings → Audit Logs - every entry across the workspace, in one filterable list. You need a role that includes it.
- Activity on a record - open a contact or a lead and click the Last edited by line to see just that record’s history in a side drawer.
What gets recorded
The log is narrower than its name suggests. It records changes to contacts and leads, and nothing else: not messages, not settings, not edits to pipelines, tags or workflows themselves.
- On a contact: first and last name, email, phone number, Messenger, Instagram and Telegram IDs, custom fields and tags.
- On a lead: title, stage, pipeline, owner, custom fields and tags.
- Every entry has an action. CREATE, UPDATE and DELETE for edits, plus SHARE_CONTEXT and REVOKE_CONTEXT when a contact’s context is shared with, or taken back from, another workspace.
- Every entry has an actor. A User, a Workflow, the API, or a Bulk Action. So “nobody touched it” often turns out to be “a workflow touched it”.
Open the Audit Logs page
The page is two clicks from anywhere. Whether you see it depends on your role: Audit Logs only appears in Settings if your role includes Settings > Audit Log, so if it’s missing, ask an admin (see Roles & permissions).
Click Settings, then Audit Logs
Find your way around the page
The Settings column is gone on this page, and that is deliberate: the page takes the full width so the table has room. Use the Back button top left to return to Settings. Refresh top right reloads the list, which does not update on its own while you have it open.
Read an entry
Each row answers one question per column. Here is a single row at full size:
Who did it
The Modified By column shows an icon, a name and a coloured type tag. A workflow’s name is a link that opens that workflow in a new tab, which is the fastest way to answer “which automation did this?”.
What changed
The Changes column reads differently depending on the action. Note the field names: the log shows them as the system stores them, so a name change reads firstName and a phone change reads nationalNumber.
Open a snapshot
A create or a delete has nothing to compare, so the row gives you a link instead: View snapshot for a create, View deleted contact or View deleted lead for a delete. It opens a small dialog with the record as it was: name, phone, and for a lead its pipeline, stage and title, plus any custom fields. For a delete, this is how you find out what was lost.
Narrow it down
The bar at the top of the page (① in the first screenshot above) has four parts, shown here at full size. Set what you need, then click Apply.
- Nothing changes until you click Apply. Picking a date or an actor only stages the change.
- The Actor list always keeps at least one box ticked. To see everything, click Select all, or click Show all actors in the note under the filter bar.
- To follow one person’s record, filter by Contact. To read one lead’s history, use its Activity drawer instead (below).
One record’s history
You don’t need Settings to check a single record. Open a contact or a lead and look just under the header of its side panel: a thin line says who last edited it and how long ago.
Click View on the Last edited by line
Read the Activity drawer
A contact and a lead keep separate histories: editing someone’s email shows on the contact, moving their lead to a new stage shows on the lead. If the entry you expect is missing, check you opened the right one.
Good to know & pitfalls
- It answers “who changed this?”, not “undo this”. The log is read-only. To revert a change, make the edit yourself.
- The default hides automations. Both the page and the drawer start on User only. If a field changed and no teammate did it, tick the other actors.
- Clear Filters is not “show everything”. It resets to the default, which is User only.
- Only contacts and leads. Changes to settings, pipelines, templates or workflows are not in here.
- Deleted records keep their name. The entry stores a copy of the contact’s name and number, so a delete row still says who it was.
- “No tracked changes” means the edit only touched something the log does not record. It is not an error.
- Access is by role. The Audit Logs page needs Settings > Audit Log in the person’s role.
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