An audit trail (also called audit log) is a security-relevant chronological record, set of records, and/or destination and source of records that provide documentary evidence of the sequence of activities that have affected at any time a specific operation, procedure, or event.
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How to store audit data in Azure
We're in the design phase for building an audit trail in an existing web application. The application runs on Windows Azure and uses a SQL Azure database.
The audit logs must be filtered by user, or by object type (eg. show all action of a user, or…

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Advice on Change Tracking in Sql Server 2008
My client is looking for a way to do a full audit trails (full view of historical data on all tables) on the application.
Other than using the old fashioned way of having table copies or storing field name, field value, modified by, modified on…

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How to access current_user from a Rails Notification?
I'm building an audit trail that needs to know which user is currently making the request. My audit trail is built using ActiveSupport::Notifications to receive an even that needs to be audited.
What I would like to do is use an…

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Ideas, Tips, Tools, Framework for implementing Audit
I'm looking for Ideas, Tips, Existing Frameworks (based on .NET), Tools and also your experience on what's the best way to implement a good Audit Trail.
Our typical Applications are nothing fancy ASP.NET MVC 3- Security Layer - Business Layer -…

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Creating a global trigger that listens to multiple tables
I want to create a global trigger in Oracle 11g. Which can be used for auditing of around 100 tables. Can multiple tables fire a single trigger. If yes then how can I achieve this?

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ASP.NET CORE & WEB API: Audit Trail or User activity logging
I created a UserActivity Logging or Audit trail using ServiceFilter. I couldn't use action filter as I need to pass the dependencies.
I successfully logged the activities of the user.
public class ActivityLog : ActionFilterAttribute
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Symfony 2.7 application audit trail - Best practicies
I have a large multi-tenanted Symfony2 application using doctrine and around 40 to 50 database tables in MySQL.
Has anybody had experience setting up an audit logging process for, at a minimum, tracking all Doctrine actions that create, edit or…

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Best Audit Trail process in asp.net c#?
What is the best way in logging actions, activities, etc done in an asp.net application. Also, which storage is best for logging these? XML? DB?
Thank you very much.

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Audit trail for JSF application - Global valueChangeListener possible?
I am trying to implement an audit trail functionality for my web application that records:
lastModified (timestamp)
modifiedBy (user information)
userComment (reason for value change)
for each of my input fields (input fields are spread over…

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Use the mongoDb and MySQL together
I have a application where I need to maintain the audit log operation performed on the collection. I am currently using the MongoDB for storage purpose which work well so far.
Now for audit log I am thinking to use the MySQL database where reasons…

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Oracle - Audit Trail for a specific user
As stated on the topic , I am looking for a way for us to track on the activities of the specific user. May or may not have the SYSDBA or SYSOPER privilege.
For example , HR.
I would like to know what are the details of his login , what are the…

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Hibernate Interceptors or Events for Audit Trail?
I record a history of all changes to some entities and am about to implement a mechanism similar to Envers to take care of this automatically. My question is whether to use Hibernate interceptors or their event system?
It seems like interceptors is…

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Avoid OpenERP audittrail bug
I'd like to manage OpenERP user's activity by installing the audittrail module.
After creating some rules ( define which user, which object and which activity (create, update..) will be monitored). I update a product to see it works.
When I've…

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trouble bootstrapping data with Grails Audit-Trail plugin installed
I am working on a Grails 2.3.4 application. I am adding the Audit-Trail Plugin v2.0.3 to our project because we have a requirement to track all create and modify times and users to help debug problems that might arise. I have sucessfully installed…

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Using a natural key, or using surrogate keys and audit table(s) for auditing/change log
My first question on here so be nice!
I am a junior developer with not much experience and am having trouble with this problem.
I have a table which needs to be auditable. Let's say this table records phone calls made by a call centre (it's not, but…

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