Auditing Service

Bruce Gruenbaum:
The Auditing Service logs access and changes to data and stores away the state of the data at the time that an event took place. It is subtly different from logging in that logging is about keeping track of the fact that things happened whereas auditing is about keeping track of exactly what happened.

Thomas Mercer-Hursh:
And, given the availability of database auditing facilities, there is a question of what constitutes an auditable event, especially in relation to a logable event. I'm not 100% sure that there is a clean separation versus the notion that there are some log events which have interest for auditing.

Initial content adapted from an exchange on PEG.