Activating Change Journal
Usually, MicroStrategy has complex environments. There are many people working and making changes. It is good practice to track all changes using Change Journal in order to detect irregular activity among MicroStrategy developers. It stores data in MicroStrategy metadata. Change Journal exists at the following levels:
Project: Track modifications of applications and schema objects
Server: Track modifications of configuration objects
Let's activate Change Journal for our MicroStrategy server and MasteringBI project:
Right-click on Project Source and choose Configure MicroStrategy Intelligence Server.
Go to Statistics:
There is statistic collection enabled by default.
Right-click on MasteringBI project and choose Project Configuration and choose Statistics:
It is also enabled by default.
In order to see changes, we can click on Properties and choose Change journal:
In addition, we can have a quick look at any change and learn more about it.