# Goal settings log? **URL:** \ **Category:** Newbee\ **Created:** [August 24, 2016, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/goal-settings-log/2453 "2016-08-24T16:11:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![giovanni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ea924/32.png) [@giovanni](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/giovanni)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2016, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/goal-settings-log/2453/1 "2016-08-24T16:11:44Z")
Hi all, I was trying to get a history of my goal (initial goal, when I increased it, when I derailed, when I reduced the buffer etc), is this information logged somewhere? Thanks! Giovanni ---
**Author:** ![drmaciver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/drmaciver/32/80_2.png) [@drmaciver](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drmaciver)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 11:53am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/goal-settings-log/2453/2 "2016-08-25T11:53:04Z")
I don’t think it is. Certainly I’ve never found it, and it’s something I’ve occasionally wanted and looked for. ---
**Author:** ![tomjen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@tomjen](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/tomjen)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/goal-settings-log/2453/3 "2016-08-25T17:23:54Z")
If you browse the data, you can see beeminder inserts a log entry whenever you derail. The rest of the data is visible on you graph, but that can be somewhat difficult to see. ---
**Author:** ![insti](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/insti/32/545_2.png) [@insti](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/insti)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/goal-settings-log/2453/4 "2016-08-25T18:42:10Z")
It’s possible to examine the road and infer things from its shape, but there are also many ways to adjust your road in a way that destroys information. I also believe Beeminder log all the activity on a goal, but suspect they currently have no way of nicely querying it or returning useful information from it in an automated manner. ---
**Author:** ![olimay](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/olimay/32/4839_2.png) [@olimay](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/olimay)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/goal-settings-log/2453/5 "2016-08-25T21:41:10Z")
If you have access to the road editor, you can see the effective dates of rate changes. It’s little tricky because the date of the rate change date is (someone please correct if incorrect) the day after the end date of the previous road segment (old rate). I think you can also infer all these things via API calls, but that would take a bit of programming and a bit more thinking. ---
**Author:** ![drmaciver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/drmaciver/32/80_2.png) [@drmaciver](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drmaciver)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2016, 8:06am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/goal-settings-log/2453/6 "2016-08-27T08:06:15Z")
> [@olimay](#): > > If you have access to the road editor, you can see the effective dates of rate changes. I think this doesn’t quite do what is wanted because of retroratcheting. You’ll see the dates that things change, but that may not correspond perfectly to the actions performed. ETA: Or at least it doesn’t do what _I_ wanted. @giovanni’s use case/requirements may be different. ---
**Author:** ![insti](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/insti/32/545_2.png) [@insti](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/insti)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2016, 8:12am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/goal-settings-log/2453/7 "2016-08-27T08:12:57Z")
Retroratchets do show up in the road. ---
**Author:** ![drmaciver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/drmaciver/32/80_2.png) [@drmaciver](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drmaciver)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2016, 8:20am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/goal-settings-log/2453/8 "2016-08-27T08:20:02Z")
What I mean is that a retroratchet (or for that matter a break) is a destructive operation, so if I make some road changes and then retroratchet or break the change will not always be visible in its orignal form ---
**Author:** ![insti](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/insti/32/545_2.png) [@insti](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/insti)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2016, 8:27am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/goal-settings-log/2453/9 "2016-08-27T08:27:40Z")
> [@drmaciver](#): > > What I mean is that a retroratchet (or for that matter a break) is a destructive operation, so if I make some road changes and then retroratchet or break the change will not always be visible in its orignal form Ah. That is correct.