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Audit Trail Platform

This page describes the ConnectSoft Audit Trail Platform — a production-ready, tamper-evident audit logging solution for compliance-driven systems. It is written for compliance officers, security teams, and architects evaluating audit solutions.

The Audit Platform provides centralized, immutable audit logging with tenant isolation, retention policies, and compliance features designed for regulated industries and security-conscious organizations.

Important

The Audit Platform provides tamper-evident storage and integrity verification to meet compliance requirements. All audit events are immutable once written, with cryptographic verification available.

What This Platform Does

The Audit Platform provides:

  • Centralized Audit Logging - Single source of truth for all audit events across your system
  • Tamper-Evident Storage - Immutable logs with cryptographic integrity verification
  • Multi-Tenant Isolation - Complete tenant separation with per-tenant retention policies
  • Compliance Features - Legal hold, export capabilities, and retention management
  • Search and Query - Fast search across audit logs with filtering and aggregation

Core Features

  • Event Ingestion - REST and gRPC APIs for real-time event ingestion
  • Event Streaming - Support for high-throughput event streaming
  • Tenant Isolation - Complete separation of audit data per tenant
  • Retention Policies - Configurable retention periods per tenant and event type
  • Legal Hold - Prevent deletion of audit logs under legal hold
  • Export APIs - Export audit logs for compliance reporting and e-discovery
  • Search and Query - Full-text search, filtering, and aggregation capabilities
  • Integrity Verification - Cryptographic hashing and chain verification
  • Access Control - Role-based access to audit logs (read-only for most users)
  • Observability - Metrics, tracing, and monitoring for the audit platform itself

Typical Integrations

Microservices

  • Microservices emit audit events via REST/gRPC APIs
  • Event-driven integration via message bus
  • Automatic audit event generation for common operations

Identity Platform

  • Authentication and authorization events
  • User management actions
  • Token issuance and revocation

Config Platform

  • Configuration changes
  • Feature flag toggles
  • Policy updates

Custom Applications

  • Business events (orders, payments, etc.)
  • Administrative actions
  • Data access events

Ideal Use Cases

  • Compliance Requirements - SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS audit trail requirements
  • Security Auditing - Track all security-relevant events for incident investigation
  • Change Tracking - Audit trail of all configuration and data changes
  • Legal Hold - Preserve audit logs for legal proceedings
  • E-Discovery - Export audit logs for legal discovery processes
  • Accountability - Track who did what and when for accountability

SaaS Consumers by Cycle

The Audit Platform is a foundational Core Platform service consumed by all ConnectSoft SaaS products across all cycles for compliance and accountability.

Cycle 1: AI Factory SaaS

  • AI Factory SaaS uses Audit Platform for tracking all Factory operations, project generations, and agent activities
  • All Factory-generated projects emit audit events to Audit Platform
  • Factory console actions are audited

Cycle 2: Horizontal SaaS

  • Digital Marketing Hub - Campaign execution events, user actions, email/SMS delivery events
  • Short Links Platform - Link creation, click tracking, analytics events, user actions
  • Workflow Orchestrator - Workflow execution events, trigger/action logs, user actions
  • Headless CMS - Content creation, publishing, access events, user actions
  • CRM / Contacts Hub - Contact interactions, sales activities, user actions

Cycle 3: AI & First Vertical

  • AI Bot Framework - Conversation events, bot interactions, user actions
  • AI Marketing Copilot - AI generation events, user actions, campaign modifications
  • Digital Forms SaaS - Form submissions, approval workflows, user actions
  • Insurance Suite - All insurance-related business events for compliance (policies, claims, payments)

Cycle 4: Marketplaces & Ecosystem

  • All marketplace transactions and activities are audited
  • Integration Platform - All integration events, sync operations, connector activities
  • Support & Self-Service Platform - Support ticket events, customer interactions, user actions
  • Vertical suites (AdTech, HR) - All business events for compliance and auditing

Relationship to the Factory

The Audit Platform demonstrates Factory capabilities:

  • Built by the Factory - Generated using Factory templates with compliance patterns
  • Reference Implementation - Shows event-driven architecture and multi-tenant patterns
  • Template Available - Audit logging patterns available as Factory templates
  • Customizable - Generate custom audit services with specific compliance requirements

Note

The Audit Platform integrates seamlessly with other ConnectSoft platforms. All platforms emit audit events to the Audit Platform by default, providing a unified audit trail.