Audit logging

Context

You have applied the [[Microservice architecture]] pattern.

Problem

How to understand the behavior of users and the application and troubleshoot problems?

Forces

It is useful to know what actions a user has recently performed: customer support, compliance, security, etc.

Solution

Record user activity in a database.

Examples

This pattern is widely used.

Resulting Context

This pattern has the following benefits:

• Provides a record of user actions

• This pattern has the following drawbacks: The auditing code is intertwined with the business logic, which makes the business logic more complicated

Related patterns

[[Event Sourcing]] is a reliable way to implement auditing