Audit Logging - CI/CD Glossary Definition
Audit logging records who did what and when to support investigation and compliance.
Audit logging is the recording of security-relevant events (who did what, when, and to which resource) in a durable log to support investigation, monitoring, and compliance.
Audit logs turn pipeline and platform activity into evidence, essential for both incident response and framework requirements.
In CI/CD
Recording who approved a deploy, who changed a secret, and which run promoted an artifact provides an audit trail for compliance reviews.
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