[GA4] View the history of account/property changes

You need the Editor role to view Change history for an Analytics account or property.

Change history provides a record of changes made to an account over the last 2 years.

View change history

In Admin, under Account or Property, click Account change history or Property change history.

Change history lists:

  • Time: The date and time of the activity
  • Location type: the Analytics account or property where the change took place
  • Location name: the name of the Analytics account or property where the change took place
  • Item type: the type of item that was changed, such as a data stream or Google Ads link
  • Action: the change, such as create or modified, that was made to the item
  • Changed by: Which Analytics user performed the activity.

Change history also captures some automated system changes.

Note: The System (Migration) label indicates that the change was made as part of an automatically created Google Analytics 4 property.

Entries attributed to [deleted user] indicate that Analytics cannot retrieve an email address because the Google account for the user who made the change has been deleted.

Set the date range

Use the Date range menu to select one of the predefined date ranges or set a custom date range.

The date range uses your operating system's time zone.

Filter the contents

  1. Use the Location menu to select the account or property whose changes you want to see.
  2. Click More filters to open additional options for filtering.
    • "Any item type" allows you to select the item types you want to include.
    • “Any action” allows you to select the actions you want to include.
    • "Changed by" allows you to enter one or more email addresses of users whose changes you want to include.
  3. Click Apply.

Search the contents

Use the search field at the top of the table to search contents by any of the data types listed in the columns, such as date, location name, and item type.

Enter dates using the same format as the column entries.

You can search using partial strings like the first two letters of a month or a few letters from a user's email address.

View additional details

In the row for an individual change, click Information to view additional details, for example, the before and after states of an account or property. The additional details show the Admin-API representation of the object.

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