Audit trails
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In this lesson
record financially significant changes so they can be explained later.
Planned topics
- Record who or what, when, what changed (before and after), and why, for money and status changes.
- Append-only: audit rows are never updated or deleted by the application.
- Keep it queryable by order and by time, and retain it per policy; mind personal data rules in the trail.
- Include automated actors such as the reconciliation job.
Draft outline details
Demonstration
Audit row: id, entity, entity_id, action, actor, at, before, after, reason, correlation_id.
Check your understanding
Why include a correlation ID?
Show answer
To link an audit entry to the request, logs, and traces behind it.
Practice
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