See who changed what and when — for any record in your Dataverse environment, right inside VS Code.
When something changes unexpectedly in Dataverse, you need to trace it back. Pick an entity, enter a record ID, and instantly see the full audit trail — every field change, old value, new value, who did it, and when.
No more navigating to the maker portal or writing FetchXML against the audit table.
What You Can Do
- View audit history for any record by entity and record ID
- See field-level diffs — old and new values side by side for every change
- Search auditable entities — a live autocomplete shows only entities with auditing enabled
- Open from the explorer — right-click any entity in the Metadata tree and choose View Audit History to open pre-filtered to that entity
- Open from an environment — right-click an environment to browse audit logs across all entities
- Copy change details to clipboard for sharing or documentation
- Switch environments on an open panel without closing and re-opening it
- Run multiple panels — open separate audit viewers for different environments side by side
Getting Started
- Install this extension and Dataverse Tools: Environments
- Make sure auditing is enabled on your Dataverse environment and on the entities you want to audit (Settings → Administration → System Settings → Auditing)
- Right-click an entity in the explorer tree and choose View Audit History
— or right-click an environment and choose View Audit History…
— or open the command palette and run Dataverse Tools: Audit Viewer: View Audit History…
Reading Audit History
The audit viewer opens as an editor panel with filters at the top and results below.
Filters:
| Filter |
What it narrows |
| Entity |
The entity type to audit — searchable dropdown showing only entities with auditing enabled |
| Record ID |
The specific record GUID to view history for |
| Max Count |
Limit the number of audit records returned |
Each row in the results shows:
- Operation (Create, Update, Delete)
- User who made the change
- Timestamp
Select any row to see the full change details in a side panel — every field that changed, with old and new values displayed side by side.
Requirements
- VS Code 1.96 or later
- Dataverse Tools: Environments — required for authentication and environment access
- Auditing must be enabled on the target Dataverse environment and entities
This extension is part of the Dataverse Tools suite — a collection of VS Code extensions for Dynamics 365 / Power Platform developers.
Other extensions in the suite:
- Dataverse Tools: Environments — connect and manage environments
- Dataverse Tools: Assemblies — deploy and register plugin assemblies and steps
- Dataverse Tools: Trace Viewer — view and filter plugin trace logs
- Dataverse Tools: FetchXML Builder — build and run FetchXML queries
- Dataverse Tools: Query Analyzer — query Dataverse with SQL
- Dataverse Tools: Workflows — browse and manage process automation
- Dataverse Tools: Web Resources — edit and publish web resources
- Dataverse Tools: Metadata — browse entity schema in the explorer
- Dataverse Tools: Decompiler — read decompiled plugin code from Dataverse
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