Audit Logs in Zoho Survey - Online Help Guide

Audit Logs

Audit logs track all the relevant records of significant activities related to surveys, portals, and departments in chronological order. You can find the date and time of action along with the username and the activity in detail. However, the audit logs retain only the latest 180 days history. You can also apply filters to check the activities by user, date, and action. It also captures all the following actions performed in the surveys, portals, and departments—Create, Update, Delete, Download.
NotesDepartment admins can only view their own and their department members audit logs.
InfoFrom January 28, 2026, Survey Audit Logs will be retained for one year instead of 180 days.



The Audit Logs track the following activities within the survey builder:
Section
Actions

Questions

  1. Create, update, delete questions
  2. Delete questions from trash
  3. Create questions in bulk
  4. Delete questions and restore them in bulk 

Pages

  1. Create, update, delete pages

Custom variables

  1. Create, update, delete custom variables
  2. Delete custom variables from trash
  3. Delete custom variables and restore them in bulk 

Tags

  1. Create, delete tags

Scoring

  1. Update scoring

Translate survey

  1. Create, update, delete translations

Share survey

  1. Create, delete shared surveys

Copy/transfer survey

  1. Create, delete copy/transfer surveys

Logic

  1. Update logic conditions

Export

  1. Download, delete file

Public preview

  1. Activate, deactivate the URL

Reviewer

  1. Create, delete reviewers

Settings

  1. Create, update, delete settings and survey preferences

CRM integration

  1. Create, update, delete records

Trigger emails

  1. Create, update, delete trigger emails

Trigger functions

  1. Create, update functions

Webhook

  1. Create, update, delete connections

Offline survey

  1. Create offline survey

Inline email

  1. Create inline email

Buy responses

  1. Create a research panel

Email distribution

  1. Create an email for survey distribution

Pop-up survey

  1. Create pop-up survey

Visibility

  1. Update visibility settings

Restrictions

  1. Create, update, delete restrictions

Password protection

  1. Activate, deactivate password

Response

  1. Create (collect), delete responses

Reports

  1. Create, update, delete, download (export) reports

Schedule reports

  1. Create, update, delete scheduled reports

Share report

  1. Create, update, delete shared reports

Filter

  1. Create, delete filters

Charts

  1. Update charts

The Audit Logs track the following activities within the survey setup:
Section
Actions
Portal

  1. Update portal name
Department

  1. Create, delete department
  2. Update department name
Portal/department user

  1. Activate, deactivate users
White label

  1. Create, update, delete custom domains
Domain authentication

  1. Create, update configuration
Roles and permissions

  1. Create, update, delete roles and permissions
Themes

  1. Create, update, delete themes

  1. Open any survey and click Audit Logs in the left pane.
  1. Click Setup in the user info widget.
  2. Click Audit Logs within Portal Setup in the left pane.

  1. Click Setup in the user info widget.
  2. Click Audit Logs within Department Setup on the left pane.

To apply filters to the logs:

  1. Open survey/portal/department Audit Logs.
  2. Click the filter icon in the top-right corner.
  3. Select the user in the Filter by user dropdown list to filter the activities a particular user performed in the survey.
  4. Select a time range in the Filter by date dropdown list to filter the activities for a particular time period.
  5. Select the actions (Create, Update, Delete, Download) you would want to filter for in the Filter by action dropdown list.


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