Hi Jens,
to 1:
Apilio is waiting for another signal. There is no way to influence behaviour of those contact sensors from Apilio.
to 2:
There is probably an indirect way. Apilio does not store historical data, but you can probably forward it to another location to store it (e.g. Google Sheets).
On a device detail edit view (Using device attributes and variables in actions), you can activate monitoring for attributes like this:
If this is active for an attribute, you can then use the variable in actions, e.g. to send it through IFTTT to Google sheets. You just need a Logicblock that triggers every time a new value is received.