Pattern: Audit logging §

pattern   observability   service design  

Context §

You have applied the Microservice architecture pattern.

Problem §

How to understand the behavior of users and the application and troubleshoot problems?

Forces §

  • It is useful to know what actions a user has recently performed: customer support, compliance, security, etc.

Solution §

Record user activity in a database.

Examples §

This pattern is widely used.

Resulting Context §

This pattern has the following benefits:

  • Provides a record of user actions

This pattern has the following drawbacks:

  • The auditing code is intertwined with the business logic, which makes the business logic more complicated

pattern   observability   service design  


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