Can we use XDAS for audit logs? XDAS defines a standard format based on JSON to log audits...
Thanks & regards, -Prabath On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 1:39 AM, Sameera Jayasoma <same...@wso2.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Audit logs or Audit trails contain set of log entries which describe a > sequence of actions which have occurred over a time period. From audit > logs, it is possible to trace all the actions of a single user or all the > actions or changes introduced to a certain module in the system etc. E.g. > It captures all the actions of a single user from the point he logs in to > the application. > > In previous versions of the Carbon platform, we only had a logger called > AUDIT and a separate appender which appends audit logs to separate log > file. > > The only drawback of this approach is that we don't have a proper way to > capture contextual information. In each and every audit log, we need to > capture logged in user details, IP address of client etc. In the previous > approach developers have to log this information with each and every audit > log attempt. This is suboptimal IMO, we need to implement a mechanism where > developers gives only the log message and system should append all the > other information to the log. I see few ways to implement this. > > 1) Write a custom appender which write audit logs to the file with > contextual information. > 2) Provide API to log audit logs. We can extract contextual information > from the CarbonContext in both of these methods. > > Any thoughts. > > Thanks, > Sameera. > > -- > Sameera Jayasoma, > Software Architect, > > WSO2, Inc. (http://wso2.com) > email: same...@wso2.com > blog: http://blog.sameera.org > twitter: https://twitter.com/sameerajayasoma > flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sameera-jayasoma/collections > Mobile: 0094776364456 > > Lean . Enterprise . Middleware > > -- Thanks & Regards, Prabath Twitter : @prabath LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/in/prabathsiriwardena Mobile : +1 650 625 7950 http://blog.facilelogin.com http://blog.api-security.org
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