audit-logging
Design tamper-evident audit logs that satisfy security and compliance — what to record (who/what/when/where/outcome), what to never log (secrets/PII), structured immutable events, hash-chaining for tamper-evidence, retention, and access control. A deep reference with runnable validation.
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Overview
An audit log is the system of record for accountability: it answers "who did what, to what, when, from where, and did it succeed?" in a form you can defend in a security investigation, a compliance audit, or a courtroom. That is a fundamentally different job from application logs, which exist to help *you* debug *your* code. Conflating the two is the most common and most expensive mistake teams ma
What it covers
- What to log
- What to NEVER log
- Structure: immutable, structured events
- Tamper-evidence: append-only + hash-chaining
- Retention & access control