Video: Downloading Event Log Files

Tuesday, August 10, 2021In: Videos Print

In this video, we will cover how to download Salesforce Event Log Files from a particular backup. Salesforce Event log files show event types that can be useful to track login, access to pages, package installations, and much more.

Downloading Event Log Files

Navigate to a particular backup from your backup history.

Note: We associate an event log and its files with a particular backup set in Salesforce generates a new event log ID per day. This means that you may want to consider viewing several backups or days of data in order to get a particular picture over a span of time.

Select one of the Recent Backups or choose a specific date(s).

Select the Download toggle on the top of the page.

Note: The Event Log is provided but not the actual event types which are considered to be CSV Files in Salesforce and require a download.

Select Specific and search for Event Log Files.
Select Include Attachments and Run.

Select the Click here to download link and open the downloaded zip file on the bottom left-hand side.

Select the event_log_files_csv.

Copy the name of a particular Event Log Type.

Navigate back to the opened zip file and select the EventLogFiles Folder.

Select the Log_File Folder.

Paste the file name in the search box.

Open the Event Log File.