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Audit Trail Design Principles
What to log, how long to retain it, and how to make it searchable. Build audit trails that satisfy compliance requirements without drowning in data.
Reading time: 15 min
Last updated: May 2026
Guide Overview
This is a structured outline of the implementation framework. Full detailed documentation is available for 757Comply enterprise customers.
Core Principles
- The five questions every audit trail must answer (who, what, when, where, why)
- Granularity decisions: too much vs. too little
- Immutability: technical approaches
- Retention: framework-specific requirements
- Searchability: making logs useful
- Implementation checklist
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