Salesforce Audit Trail & Field History: limits & how to extend
The post explains Salesforce's native Setup Audit Trail and Field History Tracking, including their retention limits: Setup Audit Trail keeps about 180 days and shows only the 20 most recent entries in the UI, while Field History Tracking keeps about 18 months in the UI and 24 months via API unless Field Audit Trail is enabled. It also describes Gearset's Change Monitoring, which the vendor says stores metadata snapshots without a built-in expiry and distinguishes pipeline deployments from direct production changes.
What changes for platform teams
Platform teams running Salesforce orgs should plan exports or an external store if they need audit history beyond 180 days, since native Setup Audit Trail entries are permanently deleted after that. Teams evaluating Gearset should treat its retention and coverage claims as vendor statements to verify.
Read the original at Gearset Blog ↗
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