Historical activity - The Activity Historical tab enables you to search, view, and run previously created automations. It displays all the activities that are either completed, failed, or timed out.

Note: Automations in the Queued state that have exceeded their queue expiry time might take up to 6 hours to appear on Historical tab.

Overview

The Historical tab lists all the completed automation activities in the Activity table. It allows you to define a time-based filter to search and filter the activities. You can also search the activities based on the search parameters available in the Search parameters drop-down. The following search parameters are available:

Status
Automation type
Activity name
Automation name
Device
Run as user
Activity type
Team/Role
Priority

You can also view the automation logs in the Historical tab. If you use the Log to Server action with Control Room as the logging repository, the Logs tab in the activity details page displays the logs.

Important:

The Historical tab shows multiple workload automation entries equal to the number of devices if the work items added to a queue are less than the number of devices available in a device pool. For workload automation details, refer to the View queue details page on the actual user device on which you deployed the workload automation.
The Historical tab displays only the bots that are processing the work items, while each bot deployment can include multiple work items processed as one activity.

Prerequisites

To view historical activities, ensure that you have the following permissions:

View my activity
Manage my activity
View activity from user’s folder
Manage activity from user’s folder
View everyone’s activity
Manage everyone’s activity

Time filter

As a Control Room user, you can use the Time filter option to search and view historical activities. You can select the required time duration from the list and view the specific details for the activity. Additionally, you can customize the specific time range to view historical activity details in a specific time range. This filter provides historical activity details based on custom settings, hours, or days (default is Last 90 days).

The following image shows the Time filter option on the Historical tab:

time filter for historical tab

For example, to view historical activities from May 10th to May 15th, use the Custom option and set the following parameters:

Start date: 08-21-2026
Start time: 10:00 AM
End date: 08-26-2026
End time: 10:00 PM

After you set these parameters, click Confirm. The historical activities for the set date and time display as follows:

Historical activities result when custom time filter is set

Search parameters

Based on the administrative permissions, apply various search parameters to monitor and find the required historical activities. The following table describes various search parameters, their description, and possible values or examples to search the historical activities:


Parameter	Description	Possible values and examples
Status	Search for an activity based on its status.	Completed Failed Deploy failed Pre-processing failed Stopped Timed out
Automation type^*	Search for an activity based on its type.	Process Task Bot API Task AI agent
Activity name	Search for an activity based on triggered item.	A generic name in specified system format with a combination of your automation name, date and time stamp of execution, and username. For example, `recorder_Recorder_2.7.3-20220527-004608.2022.07.04.09.32.16.botcreator`
Automation name	Search for an activity based on automation name.	The name specified when creating the automation.
Device	Search for an activity based on the bot runner device name.	The device name specified when connecting to the local device
Run as user	Search for an activity based on the name of the user who created the activity.	The username of the user who executes the automation.
Activity type^*	Search for an activity based on the type.	Run now Schedule Run with queue API call Trigger Creator run Debug run Import Export
Team/Role^*	Search an activity based on the assigned team or role	The role or team assigned for the process.
Priority	Search for an activity based on the priority assigned to the automation.	Low Medium High

^* indicates that these filters are currently supported in the following Automation Anywhere Cloud regions:

Automation 360 Cloud : Control Room - Brazil 1
Automation 360 Cloud : Control Room - Europe 1
Automation 360 Cloud : Control Room - India 1
Automation 360 Cloud : Control Room - South Africa 1
Automation 360 Cloud : Control Room - US Central 1
Automation 360 Cloud : Control Room - US East 1

Actions buttons

You can export, refresh, and customize the activity table display in the Activity > Historical tab.

Export to .csv

The Export to .csv option exports the activity details as a downloadable csv file. This option allows you to export the activity details based on the following parameters:

Checked items: This option exports all the activities that you select using the selection check box.
Filtered items: This option exports all filtered activities based on the time and search parameter filter.

If the number of records is less than or equal to 1000, the download starts immediately. If the number exceeds 1000, the system creates the entry with the name Historical-Export: cr-historical-<timestamp>-<user name> as a record on the page. Click the activity name to go to the downloads page to download the activity details as a zip file.

Refresh

The Refresh option refreshes and updates the table when you update the defined filter or search parameter.

Customize columns

The Customize columns option allows you to hide or unhide columns of the Activity table in addition to modifying the location of the contextual row-level toolbar.