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Imp Event Logs

Important Event Logs capture a record of significant activities and major occurrences within your Shopify store. These logs provide a high-level overview of critical actions, such as:

  • Product Management: Creation or deletion of products.
  • Order Management: Creation or deletion of orders.
  • Other Significant Actions: Various other key activities that impact your store's operation.

Event Originators

These logs can be generated from a variety of sources:

  • Admins: Actions performed by store administrators.
  • Staff Members: Activities carried out by your store's staff.
  • Storefront Actions: Events initiated directly from the customer-facing storefront, such as:
    • A customer creating or deleting an order.
    • A customer adding items to their cart.

Scope and Detail

While crucial for tracking key actions, it's important to understand the level of detail provided by Important Event Logs:

  • Basic Overview: These logs offer a fundamental summary of the activity.
  • Limited Detail: They do not include in-depth information or extensive context surrounding the action.
    • Example: If a product is deleted, the log will record that a specific product was removed. However, it will not capture details such as:
      • Who initiated the deletion (e.g., specific Admin or staff member).
      • Specific product attributes like its image, direct link, or other detailed characteristics.

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In summary, Important Event Logs are valuable for monitoring major activities and understanding what happened, but they are not designed for in-depth analysis of how or who was involved in a particular action. For more granular details, other logging mechanisms may be required.

Logify

Logify is a Shopify app which captures real-time activities and logs from your Shopify store. It records activities related to cart, checkout, order, refund, fulfilment, inventory, product, customers, staff activities and many more.

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