Audit Trail | Datadog

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

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

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 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.