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What are Activity Logs and how long does Watchful store them?

Activity Logs — or just Logs for short — are the details of your site that we monitor and store.  It includes a wide variety of activities on yor server as described in detail below. 

The saved logs are useful when troubleshooting problems on yor site, and for generating site activity reports for your clients. 

How long are activity logs stored?

Below you can find the retention time for items in the Watchful logs. Generally speaking, more important logs are stored for longer periods of time. Retentition times are also dependent upon the type of plan: Free, Legacy and Premium.

Log nameFreeLegacyPremium
Uptime monitor is down 31 days 31 days 12 months
SSL certificate expired 31 days 31 days 12 months
Uptime monitor is up 31 days 31 days 12 months
Site in maintenance mode 31 days 31 days 12 months
Stale backups 31 days 31 days 12 months
Admin user changes 31 days 31 days 12 months
Plugin or extension removed from auto updates 10 days 10 days 12 months
Core removed from auto updates 10 days 10 days 12 months
Scheduled backups offline 31 days 31 days 12 months
Word not found on homepage 31 days 31 days 12 months
Core update available 31 days 31 days 12 months
New update available 31 days 31 days 12 months
Watchful App error 31 days 4 months 12 months
System file missing 31 days 4 months 12 months
Website connection failed 31 days 4 months 12 months
Site URL changed to HTTPS 31 days 4 months 12 months
Your custom notes 31 days 4 months 24 months
Site redirected 31 days 4 months 24 months
Site URL updated 31 days 4 months 24 months
New data from Watchful App 31 days 4 months 12 months
Watchful updated 31 days 4 months 12 months
Modification of the site IP address 31 days 4 months 12 months
Modificaion of critical files 31 days 4 months 12 months
Plugin or extension installed 31 days 6 months 24 months
Plugin or extension updated 31 days 6 months 24 months
Plugin or extension deleted 31 days 6 months 24 months
PHP version modified 31 days 6 months 24 months
MySql version modified 31 days 6 months 24 months
Web server version modified 31 days 6 months 24 months
Core updated 31 days 6 months 24 months
Software update failed 31 days 6 months 24 months

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