Identify field activities on both Custom and Lead objects

[nsoria1]

Hi team, hope you are doing well.

I would like to know which may be the best way to identify which are the field updated more frequent on both a custom object and lead object.

I assume that for Lead object it may be the original api activities (https://developers.marketo.com/rest-api/lead-database/activities/) using the data value changes.

Is there any something similar for the custom objects?

Thanks-

[SanfordWhiteman · Accepted solution]

No, you can’t trace Data Value Changes in this way for COs.

You’d need to separately send (for example) a Custom Activity when you make a net change to a CO field. Alternately, you can download all COs every day and run a diff, but this would miss intra-day changes.

[nsoria1]

Hi @SanfordWhiteman thanks for the response with the details. So looks like we would need to implement our Data Value Changes ourself if we want to trace them.

[SanfordWhiteman]

That’s right. You’d need to keep track of the delta each time, which in turn means you need to track it at the source (or some intermediate database).