# Audit Log

> Discord’s built-in record of administrative actions in a server. It retains entries for 45 days, after which Discord’s own record of what happened is gone.

- Canonical: https://discordtools.blog/glossary/audit-log
- Group: Platform
- See also: https://discordtools.blog/glossary/snowflake, https://discordtools.blog/glossary/logging
- Updated: 2026-08-31
- Publication: The Index, an independent site not affiliated with Discord Inc.

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The 45-day window is the structural reason third-party bots keep their own moderation history:
after six and a half weeks the platform cannot tell you who deleted a channel or banned a
member. Any tool offering longer history is storing it itself.

The audit log also does not record message content, only that an action occurred and by whom.