Audit Log API Service

intermediate

An audit logging service that captures, stores, and queries system events with immutable storage, tamper detection, and compliance reporting. Supports structured event data, filtering, and export f...

Target user

Security and compliance teams who need audit trails

Problem

Security teams need an immutable audit log service with tamper detection and compliance reporting without building audit logging into every service.

Requirements

Capture structured audit events
Store events immutably with hashing
Query and filter audit logs
Tamper detection via hash chains
Export logs for compliance reports

Core technologies

TypeScript, Express, Prisma

Completion criteria

An audit log service with immutable storage, tamper detection, querying, and compliance export.

Optional extensions

Add real-time alerting
Implement retention policies
Add log archiving
Support multi-tenant logs