Updated by

The Updated by field shows who — or what — last touched a record. Add it to any project to track accountability and spot changes coming from automations, integrations, or specific teammates.

Use cases

• Accountability — see at a glance who made the most recent change to any record.
• Audit automation activity — group by Updated by to find records last nudged by an automation, formula, or repeat schedule overnight.
• Spot API and form traffic — surface records last touched by a form submission, an API key, or an external integration.
• Filter by editor — show me everything I changed today, or everything edited by a specific teammate this week.

Behavior

Updated by is system-managed. Blue stamps the value automatically on every change to the record — title, description, custom field value, status, comments, attachments, checklist items, tags, and so on. There is no manual editing.

The value can be any of:

• A teammate — the user who made the change.
• An automation — when the change came from an automation action.
• A public form — when the record was created or updated by a form submission.
• An API key — when the change came from the public API.
• A Blue system process — for changes made by formulas, repeats, lookups recalculating, and other internal updates.