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How to find track history enabled fields in your Salesforce instance

Field history tracking is a Salesforce feature that allows tracking of changes to object field changes over time.  In today's post well cover: What is field track history in Salesforce Changes to field change history data retention coming in the Spring 19 release How to use SOQL and workbench to find fields with track history enabled What is Field Track History? Salesforce comes out of the box with field change tracking functionality for standard and custom object fields. When enabled, up to 20 fields can have changes tracked for most objects in Salesforce. The field value changes are stored in object "history" tables and can be viewed from the Object History related list on an object record, from history reports, weekly data exports, data loader and API access. Changes to field tracking history data in Spring 19 The Spring 19 release, which goes live in February 2019, brings the enforcement of  Salesforce’s policy for retaining field tracked change da