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I am diagnosing a botched upgrade in a Joomla component. In order to find out exactly what happened, it would be really helpful to have a log of all the updates (system, extensions, components...) performed on the system: on this day this plugin was updated, on this day that other component was updated...
Is there such a log? (Joomla 3.6).
There is no such activity log feature in the Joomla core but you could install a third party extension such as the LOGman paid extension or similar.
According to the documentation, logged activities include installs, upgrades and uninstalls using the Joomla Installer.
Of course, this probably won't help you in this instance because LOGman only logs activity after it has been installed.
November 2018 Update:
With the release of Joomla 3.9.0, a user action log is now included in the Joomla core. Actions such as log in, log out, extension updates, article updates and extension configuration changes can be logged. Remember to enable the action log plugins for this to work.
No - Joomla doesn't store the history of updates anywhere, but this is a good idea to have.
If you're diagnosing a botched update, then the first thing that you need to do is to find out what the error is (by setting the error_reporting to "maximum" in your configuration.php file). If that doesn't work, then try disabling plugins one by one (last ones installed first).
