Audit Logging and Compliance Questions

Covers design and operational practices for audit logging and regulatory compliance for database systems. Topics include deciding which access and change events to record, log schema and formats, secure collection and transmission, immutable storage and integrity controls, retention and rotation policies aligned to legal requirements, redaction and privacy controls for personally identifiable information, integration with aggregation and indexing pipelines, tooling for investigation and forensic analysis, generation of compliance reports and audit evidence, alerting on suspicious or out of policy activity, performance and storage trade offs, and testing and validation of the full logging pipeline.