How to inspect a single change in the Activity Log in CornerSpot

The Activity Log is an append-only record of every action your team members take. When you need to know exactly who changed what — and when — you can open any entry to see the full story behind it. This guide shows you how to inspect a single logged change.

How to inspect a change in the Activity Log

Reviewing the Activity Log is an admin action. Opening the page is itself audited, so CornerSpot keeps a complete, tamper-evident trail of who looked at what.

1. Open the Activity Log

From your Account Settings, open the Activity Log (at /dashboard/settings/activity). Each row shows When the action happened, the Actor, the Action, the Target record, and the originating IP.

The Cornerspot Activity Log listing team-member actions — The Activity Log, listing every team-member action newest first.

2. Find the entry you want

Use the filters to narrow the log to what you’re investigating. Here we filter by Entity ID to isolate every change made to one specific record. You can also filter by action, actor, entity type, or a date range.

The Cornerspot Activity Log filtered by a record’s entity ID — Filtering the log by Entity ID to isolate one record’s history.

3. Open the detail drawer

Click the chevron at the end of a row to open its detail drawer. It slides in from the right with everything CornerSpot recorded about that single event.

The chevron that opens an Activity Log entry’s detail drawer in Cornerspot — The chevron at the end of each row opens that entry’s details.

4. See who made the change

The Actor section shows the person behind the action — their Name and Email, the IP address they acted from, and the User agent (their browser and device). The Target section names the exact record and its ID.

The Actor section of an Activity Log entry showing name, email, IP, and device in Cornerspot — The Actor section: name, email, IP address, and device.

5. Compare the values before and after

For an update, the Changed fields table lists each field that changed, with its value Before and After side by side — so you can see precisely what was modified.

The Changed fields before-and-after table for an Activity Log entry in Cornerspot — The Changed fields table showing each value before and after.

6. Dig into the metadata

The collapsible Metadata tree holds the full technical detail captured with the event. Click Expand all to open every node, or Collapse all to tidy it back up.

The expanded metadata tree of an Activity Log entry in Cornerspot — The metadata tree expanded for the full technical detail.

What the detail drawer tells you

Who and from where: The actor’s name, email, IP address, and user agent pinpoint who made the change and on what device.
Exactly what changed: The Before/After table makes every field-level edit explicit, with no guesswork.
The full record: The metadata tree exposes the underlying JSON for deep investigations.
Read-only and permanent: The Activity Log can’t be edited or deleted — it’s an append-only audit trail you can rely on.

Tips for investigating a change

Filter by Entity ID to follow a single record’s full history in one place.
Combine the actor and date-range filters to scope an investigation to one person over a period.
Use Export CSV on the list to keep an offline copy of the entries matching your current filters.