Activity Logs Overview

The Logs dashboard (/logs) is Emalc's high-throughput, real-time forensic event audit stream. While the Emails dashboard is focused on individual message content and rendered HTML previews, Logs captures low-level delivery events, MTA network responses, client telemetry, and forensic metadata for every action taken across your email infrastructure.

Whether an email is accepted by a destination mail server, deferred by anti-spam greylisting, opened by a subscriber on mobile, or rejected due to a non-existent mailbox, an immutable log entry is immediately recorded with precise timestamps, IP addresses, and diagnostic codes.

Logs vs. Emails vs. Campaigns#

Understanding the role of each observability tool in Emalc:

What You Can Inspect in Logs#

The Logs table provides an unopinionated, chronological feed of every delivery event across your workspace:

• Email Events: The specific lifecycle event formatted with clean dot-notation (email.delivered, email.opened, email.clicked, email.bounced, email.soft_bounce, etc.).
• Campaigns: The name of the campaign associated with the message, or an em dash (—) for transactional API dispatches.
• Sender: The verified From email address used to transmit the message (e.g. billing@yourcompany.com).
• Recipient/To: The target destination email address.
• User Agent: Intelligent client detection powered by user-agent parsing (e.g., Chrome (Windows), Mobile Safari (iOS), Apple Mail (macOS)).
• Created: Relative time of event generation (e.g., 2m ago, 5h ago) with complete ISO timestamp accessible on hover.

Real-Time Search, Filtering & Data Export#

The Logs toolbar provides robust, URL-synchronized filtering tools that allow engineers and deliverability specialists to isolate critical events within seconds:

1. Debounced Search Query#

The search input supports debounced, instant queries across recipient email addresses, event names, sender addresses, and campaign titles.

2. Date Range Picker#

By default, the table presents events from the Last 15 days. You can choose one-click presets (Today, Last 7 days, Last 15 days, Last 30 days) or configure a custom calendar date range.

3. Sender Multi-Select Filter#

Narrow down logs to specific sending domains or brand identities. The dropdown is dynamically populated with all authenticated senders that have active event records in your workspace.

4. Reset Filters#

Click the Reset button (RotateCcw icon) at any time to instantly restore the default 15-day view and clear active search parameters.

5. High-Throughput CSV Export#

Need to perform external audits or feed log data into data warehouses? Click Export to stream matching logs into a standardized CSV file:

• Live Progress Modal: Displays real-time counting, processing progress, and file finalization states.
• Timezone Normalization: Automatically synchronizes exported timestamps with your local machine's timezone.
• Standardized Naming: Exports with clean timestamps formatted as logs-export-YYYY-MM-DD-HH-mm-ss.csv.

Deep-Dive: Log Detail Inspection Sheet#

Clicking on any log row slides open the Log Detail Sheet, exposing full diagnostic telemetry and dual JSON payloads:

Header & Quick Stats Bar#

• Recipient Chip: Quickly copy recipient address or identify event category.
• Email Events: The exact event identifier with a 1-click copy button.
• Campaign Association: Direct link to the parent campaign context.
• Timestamp: Formatted microsecond-accurate date and time.
• Source IP: Client or MTA connection IP address.
• Log Event ID: Universal unique identifier (UUID) for API querying, webhook correlation, and support escalation.

Dual JSON Codeboxes#

The inspection sheet features two side-by-side syntax-highlighted codeboxes:

[
  {
    "id": "c7a8b412-9e23-4f81-80a1-2d7f8a1c9021",
    "message": "Queued in workspace dispatch engine",
    "errorCode": null,
    "metadata": null,
    "createdAt": "2026-09-17T08:12:00.000Z"
  },
  {
    "id": "e4f5a6b7-8c9d-4e0f-1a2b-3c4d5e6f7a8b",
    "message": "Handed off to upstream Mail Transfer Agent (MTA)",
    "errorCode": null,
    "metadata": null,
    "createdAt": "2026-09-17T08:12:03.000Z"
  },
  {
    "id": "a1b2c3d4-e5f6-7a8b-9c0d-1e2f3a4b5c6d",
    "message": "250 2.0.0 OK 1726560724 d29-20020a1709029a1d00b005fe6b3f9c4si4393859pjb.124 - gsmtp",
    "errorCode": null,
    "metadata": null,
    "createdAt": "2026-09-17T08:12:05.000Z"
  }
]

{
  "ip_address": "198.51.100.42",
  "country": "United States",
  "city": "San Francisco",
  "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
  "url": "https://emalc.com/pricing?utm_source=broadcast&utm_campaign=fall_launch"
}

Practical Troubleshooting Use Cases#

Next Steps#