Matomo ActivityLog API

The Matomo ActivityLog API exposes 3 operations of the Matomo Reporting API (module `ActivityLog`). Audit log of who changed what inside Matomo. Every operation is dispatched through the single `/index.php?module=API&method=ActivityLog.` entrypoint on the customer's own Matomo instance, self-hosted or on Matomo Cloud. The OpenAPI 3.1.0 document is Matomo's own, generated by its first-party ApiReference plugin.

OpenAPI Specification

matomo-activity-log-openapi.json Raw ↑
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