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Datadog Audit Trail

Datadog Audit Trail

Monitor user activity across the Datadog platform to maintain compliance, enforce platform governance, and build transparency

Datadog Audit Trail helps businesses safely adopt the Datadog platform while maintaining compliance, enforcing governance, and building greater transparency. Gain full visibility into user access and platform changes across all systems, and empower DevOps and compliance teams with context-rich insights.


Compliance Readiness made easy

  • Automatically capture and report on all audit events across configuration, access, and billing assets within the platform
  • Search and analyze detailed audit events for up to 90 days, and easily archive for long- term retention
  • Export audit event data to build your own reporting for regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, PCI, SOX, GDPR, and more

Enforce platform governance while encouraging Datadog adoption amongst teams

  • Monitor and remediate configuration changes for critical assets
  • Eliminate blindspots related to asset ownership and access control
  • Maintain central visibility while teams customize their Datadog feature adoption
Enforce platform governance while encouraging Datadog adoption amongst teams

Break down silos between teams

  • Collaborate and share findings with GRC teams, auditors, and security teams
  • Generate context-rich reports and insights using detailed audit events
  • Optimize Datadog platform configuration based on change frequency

Customer Testimonials

With Datadog Audit Trail, we were able to quickly find and lock down suspicious activity across certain access keys, helping us ensure sensitive information remained protected across the stack and meet our compliance & security goals.

Doug Reading

Doug Reading

Engineering Manager, Observability - Zendesk

Audit Trail is essential to our detection-as-code strategy. By providing us with the granular visibility and control needed to track changes and alert on drift events, Audit Trail ensures our critical monitoring resources remain well-configured across the Datadog platform.

Kelly Bettendorf

Kelly Bettendorf

Staff Security Engineer, Stavvy

Resources

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Log Management & Analytics Product Brief
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Build compliance, governance, and transparency across your teams with Datadog Audit Trail
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Best practices for reducing sensitive data blindspots and risk
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Build a modern data compliance strategy with Datadog's Sensitive Data Scanner
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