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Overview

The Activity tab provides a comprehensive view of team activities within Forest. Every action performed by users is tracked and logged with complete context for accountability and compliance.

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What gets logged

Forest tracks all user activities across different areas: For each action, the system logs the user, targeted record(s), and timestamp. Forest tracks and stores these activities without records’ sensitive data except the ID/primary key.
To also record what changed — field-level before/after values, in a database you own — enable the audit trail on your agent. The project’s Activity Logs page and each record’s Activity tab then show the diffs alongside these logs.
Known Limitation: When collections share identical names with different capitalization (e.g., myCollection and MyCollection), activity tracking may incorrectly attribute actions between these collections.

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Viewing activity logs

The project’s Activity Logs page and each record’s Activity tab share the same timeline interface:
  • each entry shows the user, the record and the timestamp, and links to its record;
  • the filter panel narrows by author, activity type and date range, and the sort toggle switches between newest-first (default) and oldest-first. Filters apply to the whole history, not the current page;
  • with the audit trail configured on your agent, entries also show field-level diffs, and free-text search runs across the recorded values. Without it, the timeline shows the activity logs alone.

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Project Activity Logs page

The Activity Logs page shows all team activities across your Forest project. Who can open it is the team’s Activity Logs setting. With the audit trail, it adds the changes of every collection you can read and your team has no scope on; see Project Activity Logs page for which collections are included and the agent versions it needs.

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Record-level activity

Each record’s detail page has an Activity tab with that record’s own history, so team members can track its changes over time. See The Activity tab for what its entries show.

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Export all activities

Admin users can export comprehensive activity data including read operations:
  • Search activities
  • Filter usage
  • Record detail views
  • Dashboard access
  • Record exports
  • All write operations listed above
To export activity logs:
  1. Click the “Export” button in the Activity tab
  2. Select a date range
  3. Initiate the export
You will receive download links via email shortly after the export request.
API Access: Activity logs are also available programmatically through the Forest API. See the Activity Logs API reference for more information.

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Admin Logs

While Activity Logs track what operators do with your data, Admin Logs track changes to your Forest project’s configuration, such as permission and access-management changes. They are kept separately from the data activity logs. Admin Logs are available through the Forest public API, which lists the admin logs for a project, most recent first. This endpoint is not self-service: contact us to enable access. See the Admin Logs API reference for details.