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# Audit Trail

View Marketing Cloud Engagement access and activity records with Audit Trail. Pull Audit Trail records in Automation Studio data extracts or by using REST API. Analyze the information from Audit Trail in your preferred tools or archive it for later reference.

Keep these considerations in mind when you use Audit Trail:

- Beginning in August 2026, Basic Audit Trail is on by default in all accounts where either Basic or Advanced Audit Trail wasn’t previously active. It can’t be turned off.
- The parent business unit can view audit and security events for itself and all its child accounts.
- Audit Trail data uses the Central Standard Time (CST) time zone.

- **[Basic Audit Trail Metrics](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_overview_audit_trail_basic_metrics.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Basic Audit Trail provides fundamental security-related metrics. With Basic Audit Trail, Marketing Cloud Engagement retains 30 days of data. Basic Audit Trail is on by default in all accounts.
- **[Advanced Audit Trail Metrics](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_overview_audit_trail_advanced_metrics.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Advanced Audit Trail is available as an add-on. It includes all the metrics that Basic Audit Trail provides, and extra metrics related to channels, sites, analytics, and automations. Advanced Audit Trail retains data for 60 days.
- **[Use Audit Trail](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_overview_use_audit_trail.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    A security admin user can view access and activity records from user tasks in Marketing Cloud Engagement.

#### See Also

- [Use Audit Trail](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_overview_use_audit_trail.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "A security admin user can view access and activity records from user tasks in Marketing Cloud Engagement.")
- [Create an Audit Trail Data Extract Activity](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mc_as_create_an_audit_trail_data_extract_activity.htm&language=en_US)