Activity Audit
Introduction
The Activity Audit page serves as your system-wide "black box recorder," providing complete visibility into every administrative action performed within DIAL. This comprehensive audit trail captures the full lifecycle of changes—tracking who initiated each action, what resources were modified, and precisely when these changes occurred.
With Activity Audit, you can:
- Trace modifications across all resource types (models, applications, roles, interceptors, and more)
- Verify compliance by reviewing detailed before-and-after comparisons of configuration changes
- Investigate issues by drilling down into individual events with timestamped, user-attributed records
- Restore stability through granular resource rollback or system-wide state restoration
Whether you're troubleshooting unexpected behavior, conducting security reviews, or maintaining regulatory compliance, Activity Audit gives you the forensic detail and recovery capabilities needed to manage your DIAL deployment with confidence.
Main Screen
On the main screen, you can view all events that has happened in DIAL Admin Panel.
Top Bar Controls
- Time Period filter: A dropdown control that scopes the Activity-Audit table to a custom period range.
- Refresh button: Manually refreshes the entries on the page honoring all active filters and the selected Time Period to pull the latest audit events
- System Rollback: Use to restore a specific state of the entire system. Refer to System Rollback to learn more.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Activity type | Action performed on the resource (e.g., Create, Update, Delete). |
| Resource type | Category of the object affected (e.g., Model, Interceptor, Role, Application, etc.). |
| Resource identifier | Identifier of the specific resource that was acted upon. |
| Time | Timestamp of the change. |
| Initiated | E-mail of the user who triggered action. |
| Activity ID | Immutable UUID that uniquely identifies the audit event. |
Activity Details
Click any activity on the main screen to open a comprehensive drill-down view that provides forensic-level insight into resource modifications. This panel enables you to:
- Inspect precise changes through a side-by-side before/after comparison showing exactly which fields were added, modified, or removed.
- Verify user accountability by reviewing who initiated the change and when it was committed to the system.
- Understand change context with categorized groupings (Features, Roles, Interceptors, etc.) that organize modifications by logical section.
- Restore previous states using one-click resource rollback to revert unwanted changes. Refer to Resource Rollback to learn more.
The Activity Details view serves as both an investigative tool for troubleshooting and a recovery mechanism for maintaining system stability.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Activity ID | Immutable UUID that uniquely identifies the audit event. |
| Activity type | Action performed on the resource (e.g., Create, Update, Delete). |
| Resource type | Category of the object affected (e.g., Models, Properties, Parameters, etc.). |
| Resource identifier | Name of the resource or deployment Id that was acted upon. |
| Time | Timestamp when the platform successfully committed the change. |
| Initiated | E-mail of a user who performed action. |
| User ID | Unique identifier of a user who performed action. |
Review Changes
- Comparison dropdown switches between two comparison modes: Before vs. After (the state immediately before and after this specific change) or Before vs. Current (the state before this change compared to the present system state), useful for tracking how a resource evolved over multiple modifications.
- View dropdown at the top filters the comparison display to show either all parameters or only those with differences between the before/after states, reducing noise when reviewing large configurations.
- Categories (e.g., Features, Roles, Interceptors). Groups all changes that belong to one logical section of the respective resource (Model, Application, etc.). Click to expand/collapse. A numeric badge shows the number of distinct changes.
- Before/After columns. Side-by-side diff that shows the previous and resulting values for every field in the section. Each row is color-coded to signal the type of operation performed:
- Green (
Create). A field was added in the After state and did not exist before. - Blue (
Update). A field's value was modified - both Before and After state rows rows are highlighted in blue. - Red (
Delete). A field was removed - it is present in the Before state but absent (or struck-through) in the After state.
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Use the JSON toggle to switch between the form-based UI and raw JSON to view a comprehensive set of parameters or those not rendered on UI.
Resource Rollback
Use Resource Rollback to restore the previous version of the related resource. A rollback leads to generation of a new entry on the audit activity screen.
System Rollback
Use System Rollback to restore all resources modified during a specified time period to their previous state. This operation performs a bulk revert across multiple resources simultaneously, creating individual rollback entries in the audit log for each affected resource. Use this when you need to undo a batch of related changes or restore system stability after problematic updates.
On the System Rollback screen, you can see tabs with all the effected resources. Navigate to each tab to preview changes. Use filters to preview only changes or all the parameters and to specify the time range. Click any action to display details in table or JSON view modes.
Use the JSON toggle to switch between the form-based UI and raw JSON to view a comprehensive set of parameters or those not rendered on UI.
