Export Audit Log

Who exported what, when — a complete trail of data exports.

Export rights in Odoo are all-or-nothing: a user either has the "Allow Export" group or not, and once they have it there is zero trace of what left the database. This module records every export made through Odoo's standard export path — the list-view export dialog and its CSV / XLSX downloads — in a read-only audit log.

• One log entry per export: user, model (technical name and label), record count, the exact exported field list, timestamp. Odoo internally exports grouped lists group by group and very large lists in batches; those chunks are coalesced into a single entry, so the record count is the real total.
• Read-only list under Settings > Export Audit Log, visible to Settings / Administration users only.
• Tamper-resistant: nobody can create or edit log rows from the UI or the ORM — they are written exclusively by the export hook. Administrators may delete rows. The exporting user's login is stored on the row itself, so the trail survives even if the user record is later deleted.
• Retention: a daily scheduled action purges entries older than a configurable number of days (default 180; 0 keeps logs forever).
• Fail-safe: if writing the audit row ever fails, the export still succeeds and a warning goes to the server log. Logging never breaks exports.
• Superuser exports are logged too — that is the point of an audit trail.
• Filters (today, last 7 / 30 days, large exports) and group-by user, model or date.

Any export made through the standard dialog is recorded the moment it runs.

The audit trail: who exported, which model, how many records, which fields, when.

Ready-made filters (today, last 7/30 days, large exports) and group-by user, model or date.

Each entry keeps the full exported field list. Entries are read-only: nobody can create or edit them.

One setting: how long to keep the log. A daily scheduled action purges older entries; 0 keeps them forever.

Questions, ideas, bug reports? — f.ashraf.dev1@gmail.com