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Last updated: April 15, 2026

View inspection history

Learn what inspection history is, how to view it via the web app, and its limitations so you can monitor changes made to an inspection.

What is an inspection history?

Inspection history records all the changes that users make to an inspection. It gives teams full visibility into how an inspection updates over time by making it clear who changed what and when.

For example, if a user updates or adds a response, that change appears in the history along with the user's name, what changed, and the exact time it occurred.You can also download the inspection history when needed for audit and compliance. This makes it easy to trace changes, review what happened during an inspection, and maintain accountability.

The inspection history page with a list of changes made to an inspection.

The "Inspection started by" field automatically populates with the name of the inspection author. This is the user who last edited the inspection.

View an inspection history

  1. Log in to the web app.

  2. Select Inspections in the sidebar or select it in More.

  3. Click on the right-hand side of the inspection and select View history. View inspection history via the web app.

  4. On this page, you can view a list of changes from the latest edit at the top to the start of the inspection at the bottom. Hover over a relative time label to see the exact date and time a change was synced. The inspection history page with a list of changes made to an inspection.

You can download up to seven years of inspection history as a CSV file.

The map view allows you to review where each inspection response has been answered on a map.

Limitations

  • The inspection history is stored for 12 months up to 7 years. Any records older than 7 years are permanently deleted and will no longer be available.

  • An inspection history does not include actions created in inspections and responses to questions using the "Annotation", "Asset", or "Site" response types.

  • The inspection history will show both the date and time, even if only one was selected in a question with a date and time or inspection date response type.

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