Retrieve the history of audited data changes
When auditing is enabled and data in audited tables and columns is changed, you can retrieve the change history of those tables and columns.
Audit data isn't available using the Dataverse TDS (SQL) endpoint.
Audit history is not available for tables in the mobile app.
Audit table
Auditing events are stored in the Auditing (Audit) table. In the Web API, the audit EntityType is the resource for this data. The audit table is read-only.
The audit table provides the data for the View Audit Summary displayed in the Power Platform admin center.
Make sure the calling user has the prvReadAuditSummary
privilege to retrieve data from the table.
The following table summarizes important columns in the audit table.
SchemaName LogicalName DisplayName |
Type | Description |
---|---|---|
Action action Event |
Choice | Represents the event that caused the change. Learn more about actions. |
AttributeMask attributemask Changed Field |
Memo | When the change represents a change to record data, contains a comma-separated list of numbers that correspond to the AttributeMetadata.ColumnNumber for the columns that were changed. Note: Don't use this data. Instead, use the messages to retrieve change history. |
AuditId auditid Record Id |
Unique identifier | Identifies the primary key for the audit table. |
CallingUserId callinguserid Calling User |
Lookup | Identifies the calling user when impersonation is used for the operation; otherwise, null. |
CreatedOn createdon Changed Date |
DateTime | Identifies when the audit record was created, which is when the user operation took place. |
ObjectId objectid Record |
Lookup | Uniquely identifies the record that was audited. |
ObjectTypeCode objecttypecode Entity |
EntityName | Displays the logical name of the table referred to by the objectid column. |
Operation operation Operation |
Choice | Identifies the operation that created the audit record; one of four values: 1 = Create 2 = Update 3 = Delete 4 = Access |
UserId userid Changed By |
Lookup | Displays the ID of the user who changed the data. |
Audit actions
Use Action Choices/Options to filter for specific events. The following tables categorize the events.
Table row events
These events capture changes to a record.
Value | Label | Message | Description |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Create | Create |
A record is created. |
2 | Update | Update |
A record is updated. |
3 | Delete | Delete |
A record is deleted. |
12 | Merge | Merge |
A record is merged with another. |
13 | Assign | Assign |
The ownerid column value for a user-owned table record is changed. |
41 | Set State | SetState |
The statecode column value for a record is changed. |
Record sharing events
These events capture changes to record access when a record is shared.
Value | Label | Message | Description |
---|---|---|---|
14 | Share | GrantAccess |
A user is granted privileges to a record. |
48 | Modify Share | ModifyAccess |
The privileges granted to a user are changed. |
49 | Unshare | RevokeAccess |
A user's access to a record is removed. |
Many-to-many relationship events
These events capture changes for many-to-many relationships.
Value | Label | Message | Description |
---|---|---|---|
33 | Associate Entities | Associate |
One or more records are associated with another. |
34 | Disassociate Entities | Disassociate |
One or more records are disassociated from another. |
53 | Assign Role To Team | Associate |
A security role is assigned to a team. |
54 | Remove Role From Team | Disassociate |
A security role is removed from a team. |
55 | Assign Role To User | Associate |
A security role is assigned to a user. |
56 | Remove Role From User | Disassociate |
A security role is removed from a user. |
User access events
These options capture the history of user access when user access auditing is enabled. The audit record for these events has an operation
column value of 4.
Value | Label | Description |
---|---|---|
64 | User Access via Web | User is accessing Dataverse using a model-driven app. |
65 | User Access via Web Services | User is accessing Dataverse with web services using a client other than a model-driven app. |
112 | User Access Audit Started | User access audit began. |
113 | User Access Audit Stopped | User access audit ended. |
The Sample: Audit user access shows how to use these action options to audit user access.
Metadata change events
These events capture changes to table and column definitions as well as changes to the organization table.
Value | Label | Description |
---|---|---|
100 | Delete Entity | User deleted a table. |
101 | Delete Attribute | User deleted a column. |
102 | Audit Change at Entity Level | User changed a table definition to enable or disable auditing. |
103 | Audit Change at Attribute Level | User changed a column definition to enable or disable auditing. |
104 | Audit Change at Org Level | User changed organization settings. |
Audit change events
These events capture changes to audit settings.
Value | Label | Description |
---|---|---|
105 | Entity Audit Started | Auditing was enabled for a table. |
106 | Attribute Audit Started | Auditing was enabled for a column. |
107 | Audit Enabled | Auditing was enabled for the organization. |
108 | Entity Audit Stopped | Auditing was disabled for a table. |
109 | Attribute Audit Stopped | Auditing was disabled for an attribute. |
110 | Audit Disabled | Auditing was disabled for a column. |
111 | Audit Log Deletion | An audit log was deleted. |
Security role change events
These events capture changes to security roles.
Value | Label | Message | Description |
---|---|---|---|
57 | Add Privileges to Role | AddPrivilegesRole |
Privileges were added to a role. |
58 | Remove Privileges From Role | RemovePrivilegeRole |
Privileges were removed from a role. |
59 | Replace Privileges In Role | ReplacePrivilegesRole |
Privileges for a role were replaced. |
Other actions
The remaining action options generally refer to auditable operations that apply to specific solutions, such as Dynamics 365 Sales, Customer Service, and Marketing.
The labels for these actions should align with an SdkMessage.Name value that represents the action. The specific operation may be a combination of the action name and a table. For example, an option with a value of 10 and the label Close should correspond to the CloseIncident
or CloseQuote
messages.
Audit table relationships
The audit table has only two many-to-one relationships with the systemuser
table:
Relationship | Audit Table Lookup | Description |
---|---|---|
lk_audit_userid |
userid |
Relates the user to all the audit records created because of changes they made. |
lk_audit_callinguserid |
callinguserid |
Relates the user to any of the audit records they created while impersonating another user. |
You can use these relationships to filter audit data records created for a specific user.
The audit entity supports only one link entity in a query. Since only two relationships exist with the systemuser
table, you can include data from either the callinguserid
or userid
columns, but not both at the same time.
You can't build queries using QueryExpression or FetchXml that join audit data with tables other than the two formal relationships that exist with the systemuser
table.
Audit EntityType definition
With the Web API, use the audit EntityType resource to read data from the audit table. The following data is the audit EntityType definition from the Web API CSDL $metadata service document without annotations.
<EntityType Name="audit" BaseType="mscrm.crmbaseentity">
<Key>
<PropertyRef Name="auditid" />
</Key>
<Property Name="operation" Type="Edm.Int32" />
<Property Name="attributemask" Type="Edm.String" Unicode="false" />
<Property Name="action" Type="Edm.Int32" />
<Property Name="useradditionalinfo" Type="Edm.String" Unicode="false" />
<Property Name="createdon" Type="Edm.DateTimeOffset" />
<Property Name="objecttypecode" Type="Edm.String" Unicode="false" />
<Property Name="_callinguserid_value" Type="Edm.Guid" />
<Property Name="_regardingobjectid_value" Type="Edm.Guid" />
<Property Name="_objectid_value" Type="Edm.Guid" />
<Property Name="_userid_value" Type="Edm.Guid" />
<Property Name="transactionid" Type="Edm.Guid" />
<Property Name="auditid" Type="Edm.Guid" />
<NavigationProperty Name="callinguserid" Type="mscrm.systemuser"
Nullable="false" Partner="lk_audit_callinguserid">
<ReferentialConstraint Property="_callinguserid_value"
ReferencedProperty="systemuserid" />
</NavigationProperty>
<NavigationProperty Name="userid" Type="mscrm.systemuser"
Nullable="false" Partner="lk_audit_userid">
<ReferentialConstraint Property="_userid_value"
ReferencedProperty="systemuserid" />
</NavigationProperty>
</EntityType>
Note
The ChangeData Column isn't included in the Web API audit EntityType. Don't use this data. Instead, use the messages to retrieve audit change history.
Example: Find contact records deleted by a user
The following examples are queries that show the audit history for contact records deleted by a specific user.
Both of the following queries return the same response.
The following query filters on the _userid_value
property of the audit record where the value matches <user id>
.
Request:
GET [Organization URI]/api/data/v9.2/audits?$select=_objectid_value,objecttypecode,createdon,_userid_value&$orderby=createdon desc&$filter=operation eq 3 and objecttypecode eq 'contact' and _userid_value eq '<user id>'
Accept: application/json
OData-MaxVersion: 4.0
OData-Version: 4.0
If-None-Match: null
Prefer: odata.include-annotations="*"
The following query accesses the collection of audit records for a specific user with the lk_audit_userid
collection-valued navigation property from the systemuser
table, where the systemuserid
value matches <user id>
.
Request:
GET [Organization URI]/api/data/v9.2/systemusers(<user id>)/lk_audit_userid?$select=_objectid_value,objecttypecode,createdon,_userid_value&$orderby=createdon desc&$filter=operation eq 3 and objecttypecode eq 'contact'
Accept: application/json
OData-MaxVersion: 4.0
OData-Version: 4.0
If-None-Match: null
Prefer: odata.include-annotations="*"
Response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Preference-Applied: odata.include-annotations="*"
{
"@odata.context": "[Organization URI]/api/data/v9.2/$metadata#audits(_objectid_value,objecttypecode,createdon,_userid_value)",
"@Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.totalrecordcount": -1,
"@Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.totalrecordcountlimitexceeded": false,
"value": [
{
"_objectid_value@Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.lookuplogicalname": "contact",
"_objectid_value": "0e76dc8a-41b5-ec11-983f-0022482bf046",
"objecttypecode@OData.Community.Display.V1.FormattedValue": "Contact",
"objecttypecode": "contact",
"createdon@OData.Community.Display.V1.FormattedValue": "5/12/2022 3:19 PM",
"createdon": "2022-05-12T22:19:12Z",
"_userid_value@Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.lookuplogicalname": "systemuser",
"_userid_value@OData.Community.Display.V1.FormattedValue": "FirstName LastName",
"_userid_value": "4026be43-6b69-e111-8f65-78e7d1620f5e"
},
< Other results truncated for brevity>
]
}
Retrieve audit change history
You can use any of three messages to retrieve data changes that are audited.
Web API | SDK for .NET | Description |
---|---|---|
RetrieveAuditDetails Function | RetrieveAuditDetailsRequest Class> | Retrieve the full audit details from an audit record. |
RetrieveAttributeChangeHistory Function | RetrieveAttributeChangeHistoryRequest Class | Retrieve the change history for a single column of an audited record. |
RetrieveRecordChangeHistory Function | RetrieveRecordChangeHistoryRequest Class | Retrieve all audited data changes for a specific record. |
To use these messages, make sure you have the prvReadRecordAuditHistory
and prvReadAuditSummary
privileges.
AuditDetail types
These messages provide more details that depend on the type of action. The details are implemented using types that are derived from a base AuditDetail
type, as shown in the following table.
Web API | SDK for .NET | Description |
---|---|---|
AuditDetail ComplexType | AuditDetail Class | Displays the base type for the derived classes. Provides access to the audit record. |
AttributeAuditDetail ComplexType | AttributeAuditDetail Class | Provides details when data changes occur for a record. Provides access to old values and new values. Returned by the following types of actions: - Table row events - Metadata change events - Audit change events |
RelationshipAuditDetail ComplexType | RelationshipAuditDetail Class | Provides details when records are associated or disassociated using a many-to-many relationship. Provides the name of the relationship and a list of the records the operation changed. Returned by many-to-many relationship events. |
RolePrivilegeAuditDetail ComplexType | RolePrivilegeAuditDetail Class | Provides details when the definitions of Security Role (Role) records change. Provides information about the old and new role privileges associated with the role. Returned by security role change events. |
ShareAuditDetail ComplexType | ShareAuditDetail Class | Provides details when a record is shared or unshared or when the level of access to a shared record changes. Returned by record sharing events. |
UserAccessAuditDetail ComplexType | UserAccessAuditDetail Class> | Provides details to track user access auditing. Provides details on the interval and access time. Returned by user access events. |
Important
The Web API types listed earlier that inherit from AuditDetail ComplexType don't return the
AuditRecord
navigation property value they should inherit fromAuditDetail
. The SDK for .NET classes returns this data.Large column values included in
AttributeAuditDetail
OldValue
orNewValue
properties such as Email.Description or Annotation are capped at 5KB or about 5,000 characters. A capped column value can be recognized by an ellipsis (…) at the end of the text; for example, "lorem ipsum, lorem ip…" Because the data is truncated, you can't use it to restore changes to these column values.
RetrieveAuditDetails message
Use this message to retrieve the audit details for a single audit record.
RetrieveAuditDetails is a function bound to the audit table. Include the Prefer: odata.include-annotations="*"
request header to get formatted values.
The following example shows the AttributeAuditDetail ComplexType returned when the parentaccountid
is set on an account
record.
Request:
GET [Organization URI]/api/data/v9.2/audits(12869c65-d7d3-ec11-b656-281878f0eba9)/Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.RetrieveAuditDetails
Accept: application/json
OData-MaxVersion: 4.0
OData-Version: 4.0
If-None-Match: null
Prefer: odata.include-annotations="*"
Response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
OData-Version: 4.0
Preference-Applied: odata.include-annotations="*"
{
"@odata.context": "[Organization URI]/api/data/v9.2/$metadata#Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.RetrieveAuditDetailsResponse",
"AuditDetail": {
"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.AttributeAuditDetail",
"InvalidNewValueAttributes": [],
"LocLabelLanguageCode": 0,
"DeletedAttributes": {
"Count": 0,
"Keys": [],
"Values": []
},
"OldValue": {
"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.account"
},
"NewValue": {
"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.account",
"_parentaccountid_value@OData.Community.Display.V1.FormattedValue": "A. Datum Corporation",
"_parentaccountid_value@Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.associatednavigationproperty": "parentaccountid",
"_parentaccountid_value@Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.lookuplogicalname": "account",
"_parentaccountid_value": "d249d106-38b5-ec11-983f-002248296cd0"
}
}
}
Learn more about:
RetrieveAttributeChangeHistory Message
Use this message to retrieve a list of changes for a specific table column.
Use the PagingInfo
parameter to control the number of records to return and move forward or backward through the pages. For subsequent requests, set the PagingInfo.PagingCookie
property to the value returned by the AuditDetailCollection.PagingCookie
.
Changes for this message are always AttributeAuditDetail
types.
This example returns a single audited change history for the description
column of an account
table record.
Request:
GET [Organization URI]/api/data/v9.2/RetrieveAttributeChangeHistory(Target=@target,AttributeLogicalName=@attributeLogicalName,PagingInfo=@paginginfo)?
@target={ '@odata.id':'accounts(611e7713-68d7-4622-b552-85060af450bc)'}
&@attributeLogicalName='description'
&@paginginfo={
"PageNumber": 1,
"Count": 1,
"ReturnTotalRecordCount": true
}
Accept: application/json
OData-MaxVersion: 4.0
OData-Version: 4.0
If-None-Match: null
Response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
{
"@odata.context": "[Organization URI]/api/data/v9.2/$metadata#Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.RetrieveAttributeChangeHistoryResponse",
"AuditDetailCollection": {
"MoreRecords": true,
"PagingCookie": "<cookie page=\"1\"><cookieExtensions ContinuationToken=\"{"pageNumber":2,"continuationToken":"[{\\"compositeToken\\":{\\"token\\":null,\\"range\\":{\\"min\\":\\"3A800000000000000000000000000000\\",\\"max\\":\\"3B000000000000000000000000000000\\"}},\\"orderByItems\\":[{\\"item\\":\\"2022-05-13T22:06:46.6175613Z\\"}],\\"rid\\":\\"CVoNAJIidnNsmz0AAADwAw==\\",\\"skipCount\\":0,\\"filter\\":null}]"}\" /></cookie>",
,
"TotalRecordCount": 3,
"AuditDetails": [
{
"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.AttributeAuditDetail",
"InvalidNewValueAttributes": [],
"LocLabelLanguageCode": 0,
"DeletedAttributes": {
"Count": 0,
"Keys": [],
"Values": []
},
"OldValue": {
"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.account",
"description": "Old description value"
},
"NewValue": {
"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.account",
"description": "New description value"
}
}
]
}
}
Learn more about:
RetrieveRecordChangeHistory Message
The RetrieveRecordChangeHistory
message shows the history of data changes for the record indicated by the Target
parameter.
Use the PagingInfo
parameter to control the number of records to return and move forward or backward through the pages. For subsequent requests, set the PagingInfo.PagingCookie
property to the value returned by the AuditDetailCollection.PagingCookie
.
The results of this message are commonly seen as the AttributeAuditDetail
data displayed in model-driven apps when you select Related > Audit history. It shows the old values and the new values of the records, but it also returns RelationshipAuditDetail
and ShareAuditDetail
types.
This message can also be used with the systemuser
and role
tables to return RolePrivilegeAuditDetail
and UserAccessAuditDetail
types.
The following example returns just the first two of four changes to an account record.
Request:
GET [Organization URI]/api/data/v9.2/RetrieveRecordChangeHistory(Target=@target,PagingInfo=@paginginfo)?
@target={ '@odata.id':'accounts(611e7713-68d7-4622-b552-85060af450bc)'}
&@paginginfo={
"PageNumber": 1,
"Count": 2,
"ReturnTotalRecordCount": true
}
Accept: application/json
OData-MaxVersion: 4.0
OData-Version: 4.0
If-None-Match: null
Response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
{
"@odata.context": "[Organization URI]/api/data/v9.2/$metadata#Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.RetrieveRecordChangeHistoryResponse",
"AuditDetailCollection": {
"MoreRecords": true,
"PagingCookie": "<cookie page=\"1\"><cookieExtensions ContinuationToken=\"{"pageNumber":2,"continuationToken":"[{\\"compositeToken\\":{\\"token\\":null,\\"range\\":{\\"min\\":\\"38000000000000000000000000000000\\",\\"max\\":\\"38800000000000000000000000000000\\"}},\\"orderByItems\\":[{\\"item\\":\\"2022-05-13T22:06:27.8029732Z\\"}],\\"rid\\":\\"CVoNAJIidnPOnT0AAAAICA==\\",\\"skipCount\\":0,\\"filter\\":null}]"}\" /></cookie>",
"TotalRecordCount": 4,
"AuditDetails": [
{
"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.AttributeAuditDetail",
"InvalidNewValueAttributes": [],
"LocLabelLanguageCode": 0,
"DeletedAttributes": {
"Count": 0,
"Keys": [],
"Values": []
},
"OldValue": {
"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.account",
"description": "Old description value"
},
"NewValue": {
"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.account",
"description": "New description value"
}
},
{
"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.AttributeAuditDetail",
"InvalidNewValueAttributes": [],
"LocLabelLanguageCode": 0,
"DeletedAttributes": {
"Count": 0,
"Keys": [],
"Values": []
},
"OldValue": {
"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.account",
"_ownerid_value@OData.Community.Display.V1.FormattedValue": "FirstName LastName",
"_ownerid_value@Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.associatednavigationproperty": "ownerid",
"_ownerid_value@Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.lookuplogicalname": "systemuser",
"_ownerid_value": "4026be43-6b69-e111-8f65-78e7d1620f5e"
},
"NewValue": {
"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.account",
"_ownerid_value@OData.Community.Display.V1.FormattedValue": "TeamName",
"_ownerid_value@Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.associatednavigationproperty": "ownerid",
"_ownerid_value@Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.lookuplogicalname": "team",
"_ownerid_value": "39e0dbe4-131b-e111-ba7e-78e7d1620f5e"
}
}
]
}
}
Note
The AuditDetail ComplexType values returned don't include the AuditRecord
property, so no data about who made the change and when it was made is available.
Learn more about:
See also
Auditing overview
Configure auditing
Delete audit data
Manage Dataverse auditing
Sample: Audit table data changes
Sample: Audit user access