Track every change in SuiteCRM with complete visibility. The Advanced Audit Log add-on records field updates and relationship changes, so you always know who changed what and when. The audit log is a chronological sequence of record changes—every entry shows what happened in SuiteCRM before and after an event. Instead of guessing, your teams can review field edits and relationship linking/unlinking with clear history.

SuiteCRM’s native auditing helps you track field value updates. With the Advanced Audit Log solution for SuiteCRM, you get a complete picture: audit the fields and also the relationships between records, then use filters and CSV export when you need reporting or compliance evidence.

Key Features

• SuiteCRM 8.8+ ready: Compatible with SuiteCRM 7.x and 8.8.x (works with modern SuiteCRM deployments).
• Field-level change tracking: Capture old and new values for every audited field so you can explain “what changed” with confidence.
• Relationship audit log: Track when records are linked or unlinked between modules—helpful for complex CRM workflows.
• Audit log filters: Review and filter logs quickly by enabled fields, user, module context, and timeframe.
• Export for compliance: Export field history and relationship history to CSV for internal reviews and compliance reporting.
• User-friendly & lightweight: Admin-friendly setup with minimal overhead, built to stay simple inside SuiteCRM.

Use Cases for Advanced Audit Log

With Advanced Audit Log for SuiteCRM, you move from a basic change log to an interactive audit history experience. When auditing is enabled for a module, users get a "View Audit Log" button on the record detail view. Clicking it opens a modal with detailed information about changed fields and relationship events (linked or unlinked), so teams can quickly understand what changed.

Advanced audit log filters

• Filter audit log based on fields: You will have a list of fields that are enabled for the audit. Apply the filter for the field of your choice.
• Filter audit log based on users: You will have a list of users in the user filter dropdown. By selecting a user it will apply the filter that you have chosen.
• Filter audit log based on time: In order to view the log of actions performed in the chosen timeframe. By default you will have all the data listed irrespective of time frame.
• Export the audit log to CSV file: You can export the history of the field as well as the relationship log into csv file based on the selected filter.

• Module's Field history tracking: Based on the audit log you can track the specific field by whom and when it was changed.
• Module's relationship history tracking: It can be tracked when a relationship created or removed from the module.For example, in Account's detailview you can find when Contact Mr. John is added and by whom. If relationship removed, You can have log of that too.

How to set module audit enabled?

SuiteCRM comes prepackaged with certain modules audit enabled, what if you require another module to be audit enabled? You need to extend vardefs to set up module as audit enable for an upgradesafe option. With the Advanced audit log, we have simplified the process, an admin user can now select the module from the multiselect and save. In the background we do the whole process and make your module audit enabled.

Admin > Audit Log settings You will have list of modules that are audit enabled will be shown in select box. Now if you want to add your module to audit log, You just select that module and press save button.

Add additional fields in audit log:
To add a field in audit log, You need to change the field definition from the studio. Admin > Studio > Your Module > Fields Click on the field and mark Audit checkbox as checked and save it. Now onwards any field change will be logged in the audit log.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

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