View channels messages in Rocket.Chat

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You can already do this by connecting to your Mongo database.

List the rooms with db.rocketchat_room.find({}), grab the ID of the room you want the history for.

Then you can see that room's history with db.rocketchat_message.find({"rid": "your_chatroom_id"}, {"u.username": 1, "msg": 1, "_id": 0}).sort({ts: 1}).map(function (d) {return d.u.username + ": " + d.msg})

It's not as intuitive as a web interface, but auditing your users' chat logs should seldom be done therefore this is a viable workaround in the meantime.

This topic attracts a great deal of controversy, as it should. That being said, this method is a workaround until there is a corresponding UI. This also means that you are already being recorded when chatting using RocketChat since your messages are saved in the database unencrypted (unless you use OTR). If you allow your users to edit/delete their messages, they are indeed modified/deleted from the database, so take that into account.

Credit: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/2869#issuecomment-280046547