It sounds like you want to audit user activity. You should consider using the built-in auditing feature, which was made for auditing user activity. There's a very easy tutorial for setting it up here. If you are not using an eligible edition of SQL Server, you should consider a more modern (and supported!) version, since database auditing was extended to all editions as of SQL Server 2016 SP1.
Sure, you could use Profiler (and bring your system to its knees) or Extended Events (and cry every time you need to analyze the data). Auditing has much better tooling support - and for ad hoc inspection you can just right-click, View Audit Logs
, and review the data like the errorlog or SQL Server Agent history.
You can query the data, too, of course, using sys.fn_get_audit_file
, and you can automate things around that, and the output is much easier to consume than raw XML. Just demonstrating that it's very easy to set up, and very easy to validate that it is set up correctly.