The Scenario
A quarterly compliance audit is due next Tuesday. The compliance officer needs to export 30 days of activity logs from five specific monday.com boards — board access, item edits, status changes, user additions — into an Excel workbook to prepare the access review report. The boards contain sensitive project and financial data. The auditor will not accept screenshots.
The bad version:
- Open monday.com, navigate to the first board's activity log, scroll back 30 days, manually copy event entries — there's no native "export activity log to Excel" button on most board views.
- Try using the API documentation to find the right endpoint — discover it requires a specific query format and authentication token you don't have.
- Escalate to an engineer to write a script — the engineer is in the middle of a release sprint and can't prioritise it before Tuesday.
- Submit the report late with a note that the full log wasn't available.
The data exists. The problem is accessing it without writing code.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It talks to monday.com through its built-in integration and can pull activity log data into the workbook without any API work or developer involvement.
Pull activity logs for monday.com board 334455667 from the past 90 days into Excel columns: user, event type, item, and timestamp
What You Get
- Every activity event from the past 30 days written as rows in the 'Activity Log' worksheet.
- Columns for: user, event type, item name, field changed, old value, new value, and timestamp.
- Board ID included in each row so events can be filtered by board.
- A row count per board written into column B of the source list for completeness verification.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You need only specific event types — not all activity
Fetch the last 30 days of activity logs from each board ID in column A of the 'Audit Boards' Excel sheet — include only events of type 'create_item', 'update_column', and 'add_subscriber'. Write results to the 'Activity Log' worksheet with columns: board ID, user, event type, item, timestamp
One board ID is from a board your account no longer has access to
Fetch the last 30 days of activity logs from each board ID in column A of 'Audit Boards' Excel sheet. If a board returns an access error, write "Permission denied" into column C and continue to the next board
You need the logs sorted chronologically and de-duplicated
Fetch the last 30 days of activity logs from each board ID in column A of the 'Audit Boards' Excel sheet, write all events to the 'Activity Log' worksheet, remove any duplicate event IDs, and sort the final table by timestamp ascending
Kill chain: pull logs, filter by user set, flag anomalies, and summarise in one prompt
Fetch the last 30 days of activity logs from each board ID in column A of the 'Audit Boards' Excel sheet and write to 'Activity Log'. Then filter to only rows where the user is not in the 'Approved Users' list on the 'Config' worksheet and write those into 'Anomalies'. Write a summary count of total events and anomaly events per board into 'Audit Summary'.
Pull, filter, and summarise in one prompt — the audit package is complete without a second pass.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open an Excel workbook that lists your sensitive monday.com board IDs, then ask SheetXAI to pull the activity logs for your next compliance review. See also: Export a board to Excel and the monday.com hub overview.