Activity Logging?

Is there anyway to see a full log of activity for the day? Doors opening, motion sensors triggering, lights turning off and on, etc.

Something that gives you a picture of the full day with time stamps, etc?

Can't you see that with "System Events?"

No, "System Events" shows only events that are important for the location/hub itself, like sunrise or sunset calculations, hub reboots, etc. Most devices do description-text logging, which can be found under "Logs," but these are live logs you'll have to leave open for the desired period. You can go there and then click "Past Logs," which will show you recent-ish history, but there is a size limit to these logs and you might not be able to see very far back if you have excessive logging enabled (debug logging for devices you don't care about, chatty mostly third-party apps/drivers, or similar). You can help with this by disabling logging you don't care about, though Hubitat-native drivers will disable debug logging 30 minutes after installation automatically (for custom code, it varies but often you'll have to disable it yourself).

For specific devices, going to their page in the admin UI and clicking the "Events" tab will show you history that generally goes quite a ways back. You can access the same thing from the "three-dots" menu on a Dashboard tile for that device if you left the three-dot menu enabled. Unfortunately, both of these require looking at individual devices, so the past logs is the best bet for looking at your devices all together--but then you may run into the history-size limit.

Some people also use third-party tools like InfluxDB+Grafana to log and visualize history outside Hubitat. I'm using Home Assistant, whose default UI includes device history graphs for about the last day (I'd get rid of it entirely if Hubitat had something similar). I've also seen things on SmartThings that log events to a Google Doc or similar, though I don't know if anyone has ported (or rewritten) this to/for Hubitat. These are probably a bit more work than might be worth it, but I thought I'd at least mention some other options I've seen.

Good luck!

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There is a custom app called Activity Viewer