In the Ruby on Rails world we have https://github.com/paper-trail-gem/paper_trail https://github.com/paper-trail-gem/paper_trail It adds a table with event type

In the Ruby on Rails world we have https://github.com/paper-trail-gem/paper_trail https://github.com/paper-trail-gem/paper_trail It adds a table with event type (create, update, destroy etc), object type (class) and id, and user who initiated it. Optionally a column that stores previous versions.