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Advanced Audit Log From Logit.io

Track user actions, system events, and data access with Logit.io audit logging — strengthen security and simplify compliance evidence.

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--:--:-- INFO request.completed duration_ms=42 route="/api/v1/orders"
--:--:-- WARN latency.spike service=checkout p95=820ms threshold=500ms
--:--:-- INFO trace.exported spans=128 backend=jaeger status="ok"
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--:--:-- INFO request.completed duration_ms=42 route="/api/v1/orders"
--:--:-- WARN latency.spike service=checkout p95=820ms threshold=500ms
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--:--:-- INFO log.shipped bytes=184032 index=logs-prod
--:--:-- WARN auth.failure ip=203.0.113.42 attempts=3 action=rate_limit
--:--:-- INFO alert.routed severity=high channel="#incidents" dedupe=on
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--:--:-- ERROR disk.pressure node=worker-3 usage=92% reclaim=started
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--:--:-- WARN queue.backpressure topic=ingest depth=1200
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--:--:-- INFO search.query hits=1284 took_ms=37 index=logs-*
--:--:-- INFO retention.policy applied hot=14d warm=30d
--:--:-- WARN tls.cert.expiring host=ingest.logit.io days=12
--:--:-- INFO ha.failover check region=eu-west status=ready
+ 12.4k events/s ingested
! 3 severity alerts fired
+ OpenSearch query 37ms

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Comprehensive Audit Logging for Security and Compliance

Audit logging is a critical component of any security and compliance strategy. Logit.io's audit logging capabilities provide a detailed record of all user actions, system events, and data access, giving you complete visibility into your environment.

With our advanced audit logging features, you can easily track who did what, when, and where, making it simple to investigate security incidents, demonstrate compliance with regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS, and maintain a secure operational environment.

Why Audit Logging Matters

Audit logging is essential for organizations that need to:

  • Demonstrate compliance with regulatory requirements
  • Detect and investigate security incidents
  • Monitor user activity and system changes
  • Maintain accountability across teams
  • Create a forensic trail for incident response

Logit.io's audit logging capabilities are designed to meet these needs with minimal configuration and maximum flexibility.

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--:--:-- INFO request.completed duration_ms=42 route="/api/v1/orders"
--:--:-- WARN latency.spike service=checkout p95=820ms threshold=500ms
--:--:-- INFO trace.exported spans=128 backend=jaeger status="ok"
--:--:-- INFO metric.scrape target=prometheus job=k8s-pods samples=8421
--:--:-- INFO log.shipped bytes=184032 index=logs-prod
--:--:-- WARN auth.failure ip=203.0.113.42 attempts=3 action=rate_limit
--:--:-- INFO alert.routed severity=high channel="#incidents" dedupe=on
--:--:-- INFO dashboard.refresh uid=ops-overview panels=14 cache=hit
--:--:-- ERROR disk.pressure node=worker-3 usage=92% reclaim=started
--:--:-- INFO pipeline.batch size=2048 lag_ms=18 status=healthy
--:--:-- WARN queue.backpressure topic=ingest depth=1200
--:--:-- INFO otel.export endpoint=collector.svc spans_ok=512
--:--:-- INFO search.query hits=1284 took_ms=37 index=logs-*
--:--:-- INFO retention.policy applied hot=14d warm=30d
--:--:-- WARN tls.cert.expiring host=ingest.logit.io days=12
--:--:-- INFO ha.failover check region=eu-west status=ready
--:--:-- INFO request.completed duration_ms=42 route="/api/v1/orders"
--:--:-- WARN latency.spike service=checkout p95=820ms threshold=500ms
--:--:-- INFO trace.exported spans=128 backend=jaeger status="ok"
--:--:-- INFO metric.scrape target=prometheus job=k8s-pods samples=8421
--:--:-- INFO log.shipped bytes=184032 index=logs-prod
--:--:-- WARN auth.failure ip=203.0.113.42 attempts=3 action=rate_limit
--:--:-- INFO alert.routed severity=high channel="#incidents" dedupe=on
--:--:-- INFO dashboard.refresh uid=ops-overview panels=14 cache=hit
--:--:-- ERROR disk.pressure node=worker-3 usage=92% reclaim=started
--:--:-- INFO pipeline.batch size=2048 lag_ms=18 status=healthy
--:--:-- WARN queue.backpressure topic=ingest depth=1200
--:--:-- INFO otel.export endpoint=collector.svc spans_ok=512
--:--:-- INFO search.query hits=1284 took_ms=37 index=logs-*
--:--:-- INFO retention.policy applied hot=14d warm=30d
--:--:-- WARN tls.cert.expiring host=ingest.logit.io days=12
--:--:-- INFO ha.failover check region=eu-west status=ready
+ 12.4k events/s ingested
! 3 severity alerts fired
+ OpenSearch query 37ms

Top Reasons Why Audit Logs Should Be Monitored & Stored

Event log files should be periodically reviewed using an event log analyser to ensure that users with special privileges are accessing and modifying data in line organization's guidelines to ensure accountability and security best practices are upheld. By analyzing internal activities in this way, you can take steps to identify and prevent suspicious activity from taking place.

If this is also implemented in line with regularly reviewed user permissions and closely regulated role-based access controls you can make a considerable difference in reducing the risks commonly associated with internal data and security breaches.

To assist in restricting internal users' access to unauthorized data, Logit.io also provides hosted OpenSearch which allows users to use Read-Only Kibana & Read Only Dashboard roles with index, document and field-level access restrictions.

If a breach were to occur in an area of your organization, audit logs, and Kibana audit logs play a vital role in assisting analysts to understand the actions that led up to a critical information security event.

internal audit logs provide further insight into the specific activities and accesses within your organization's systems, enhancing the effectiveness of incident response and forensic investigations.

By providing an electronic record of activities within your reporting platform, data analysts can trace what actions led to disaster in order to resolve any incidents and ensure preventative measures are taken as part of future planning.

As part of taking preventative measures and subsequently ensuring compliant activities, users will find that long-term retention of internal activities logs to be of great importance. By backing up these events, a bigger picture of long-term user behavior can be visited at any point when this data later becomes relevant.

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Why Use A Log Management Platform With An In-Built Audit Log?

As being able to clearly capture audit logs has increased in importance for cybersecurity professionals tracking down the causes of internal vulnerabilities and for data protection officers responsible for demonstrating compliance, it is essential that your log management platform includes an internal audit log report.

Many log analysis systems also do not have an inbuilt audit log feature that allows for freely exporting vital event data for ensuring internal compliance and data security.

The Logit.io advanced audit log report is home to an intuitive user interface (UI), enhanced search and filtering capabilities as well as zero vendor lock-in on data exports.

By using our log management tool (built upon hosted ELK) and audit log functionality, you are able to freely export your internal event logs for long term retention(this is especially vital for larger organisations that need to retain internal user actions for over a year's worth of data in order to meet compliance requirements).

Freely export your events as either CSV or JSON formatted documents & use our fast search and filter to identify activity based on event type, username, IP address or stack ID to allow for faster searching for audit records.

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--:--:-- INFO request.completed duration_ms=42 route="/api/v1/orders"
--:--:-- WARN latency.spike service=checkout p95=820ms threshold=500ms
--:--:-- INFO trace.exported spans=128 backend=jaeger status="ok"
--:--:-- INFO metric.scrape target=prometheus job=k8s-pods samples=8421
--:--:-- INFO log.shipped bytes=184032 index=logs-prod
--:--:-- WARN auth.failure ip=203.0.113.42 attempts=3 action=rate_limit
--:--:-- INFO alert.routed severity=high channel="#incidents" dedupe=on
--:--:-- INFO dashboard.refresh uid=ops-overview panels=14 cache=hit
--:--:-- ERROR disk.pressure node=worker-3 usage=92% reclaim=started
--:--:-- INFO pipeline.batch size=2048 lag_ms=18 status=healthy
--:--:-- WARN queue.backpressure topic=ingest depth=1200
--:--:-- INFO otel.export endpoint=collector.svc spans_ok=512
--:--:-- INFO search.query hits=1284 took_ms=37 index=logs-*
--:--:-- INFO retention.policy applied hot=14d warm=30d
--:--:-- WARN tls.cert.expiring host=ingest.logit.io days=12
--:--:-- INFO ha.failover check region=eu-west status=ready
--:--:-- INFO request.completed duration_ms=42 route="/api/v1/orders"
--:--:-- WARN latency.spike service=checkout p95=820ms threshold=500ms
--:--:-- INFO trace.exported spans=128 backend=jaeger status="ok"
--:--:-- INFO metric.scrape target=prometheus job=k8s-pods samples=8421
--:--:-- INFO log.shipped bytes=184032 index=logs-prod
--:--:-- WARN auth.failure ip=203.0.113.42 attempts=3 action=rate_limit
--:--:-- INFO alert.routed severity=high channel="#incidents" dedupe=on
--:--:-- INFO dashboard.refresh uid=ops-overview panels=14 cache=hit
--:--:-- ERROR disk.pressure node=worker-3 usage=92% reclaim=started
--:--:-- INFO pipeline.batch size=2048 lag_ms=18 status=healthy
--:--:-- WARN queue.backpressure topic=ingest depth=1200
--:--:-- INFO otel.export endpoint=collector.svc spans_ok=512
--:--:-- INFO search.query hits=1284 took_ms=37 index=logs-*
--:--:-- INFO retention.policy applied hot=14d warm=30d
--:--:-- WARN tls.cert.expiring host=ingest.logit.io days=12
--:--:-- INFO ha.failover check region=eu-west status=ready
+ 12.4k events/s ingested
! 3 severity alerts fired
+ OpenSearch query 37ms

For Enterprise Level Compliance & Security

We understand that larger organizations operating across multiple international regions have more complex considerations when it comes to monitoring the activity of a high number of staff that are accessing their logging, cloud SIEM and analysis dashboards.

Our audit log report ensures that you can monitor this activity. Additionally, by providing a platform that fully centralizes all of your system and service logs you can also use our platform to comply with regulations such as HIPAA, ISO, GDPR, PCI & SOC2 are far easier.

We also guarantee to uphold the security of your data as our company is fully ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified, PCI Level 2 & SOC2 Compliant & GDPR ready.

Logit.io is also the only observability platform that operates in compliance with Cyber Essentials, an essential cybersecurity accreditation for UK based businesses.

Cyber Essentials is a government-backed compliance standard offered by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) that enables companies to demonstrate that they have protected themselves against the most common causes of cyber-attacks.

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Audit Log Benefits

  • Fast search & filter by name, ID, IP & event type
  • Available across UK, European, and US data centers
  • See who is interacting & accessing Kibana
  • View activity at Account & Stack level
  • Internal audit log
  • Records when a new user has accepted an account/Stack invite
  • Export feature for long-term storage of events for compliance & security
  • Freely export audit data as either JSON & CSV without vendor lock-in
  • Multiple events are logged when users have accessed Kibana for an extended amount of time
  • Effective audit log management
  • FilebeatLogstashFluentdSyslogWinlogbeat
    Ship
    Parse
    Index
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    --:--:-- INFO request.completed duration_ms=42 route="/api/v1/orders"
    --:--:-- WARN latency.spike service=checkout p95=820ms threshold=500ms
    --:--:-- INFO trace.exported spans=128 backend=jaeger status="ok"
    --:--:-- INFO metric.scrape target=prometheus job=k8s-pods samples=8421
    --:--:-- INFO log.shipped bytes=184032 index=logs-prod
    --:--:-- WARN auth.failure ip=203.0.113.42 attempts=3 action=rate_limit
    --:--:-- INFO alert.routed severity=high channel="#incidents" dedupe=on
    --:--:-- INFO dashboard.refresh uid=ops-overview panels=14 cache=hit
    --:--:-- ERROR disk.pressure node=worker-3 usage=92% reclaim=started
    --:--:-- INFO pipeline.batch size=2048 lag_ms=18 status=healthy
    --:--:-- WARN queue.backpressure topic=ingest depth=1200
    --:--:-- INFO otel.export endpoint=collector.svc spans_ok=512
    --:--:-- INFO search.query hits=1284 took_ms=37 index=logs-*
    --:--:-- INFO retention.policy applied hot=14d warm=30d
    --:--:-- WARN tls.cert.expiring host=ingest.logit.io days=12
    --:--:-- INFO ha.failover check region=eu-west status=ready
    --:--:-- INFO request.completed duration_ms=42 route="/api/v1/orders"
    --:--:-- WARN latency.spike service=checkout p95=820ms threshold=500ms
    --:--:-- INFO trace.exported spans=128 backend=jaeger status="ok"
    --:--:-- INFO metric.scrape target=prometheus job=k8s-pods samples=8421
    --:--:-- INFO log.shipped bytes=184032 index=logs-prod
    --:--:-- WARN auth.failure ip=203.0.113.42 attempts=3 action=rate_limit
    --:--:-- INFO alert.routed severity=high channel="#incidents" dedupe=on
    --:--:-- INFO dashboard.refresh uid=ops-overview panels=14 cache=hit
    --:--:-- ERROR disk.pressure node=worker-3 usage=92% reclaim=started
    --:--:-- INFO pipeline.batch size=2048 lag_ms=18 status=healthy
    --:--:-- WARN queue.backpressure topic=ingest depth=1200
    --:--:-- INFO otel.export endpoint=collector.svc spans_ok=512
    --:--:-- INFO search.query hits=1284 took_ms=37 index=logs-*
    --:--:-- INFO retention.policy applied hot=14d warm=30d
    --:--:-- WARN tls.cert.expiring host=ingest.logit.io days=12
    --:--:-- INFO ha.failover check region=eu-west status=ready
    + 12.4k events/s ingested
    ! 3 severity alerts fired
    + OpenSearch query 37ms

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