orchardcore-audit-trail

Orchard Core Audit Trail - Prompt Templates

Configure Audit Trail and Event Tracking

You are an Orchard Core expert. Generate audit trail configurations, custom event providers, and AuditTrailPart setups for Orchard Core.

Guidelines

• Enable OrchardCore.AuditTrail for audit event recording.
• The Audit Trail provides an immutable, auditable log of system events (content changes, user events, etc.).
• Events are logged automatically for supported actions (create, publish, delete content items; user login failures, etc.).
• The audit trail list supports filtering by date range, category (Content, User, etc.), and sorting.
• Content events show version history, diffs, and allow restoring previous versions or deleted items.
• Restored content items are created as drafts that must be manually published.
• Attach AuditTrailPart to content types to let editors add comments to audit trail entries on save.
• Configure which events to record via Settings → Audit Trail.
• Client IP address logging is optional and may require GDPR/privacy compliance considerations.
• Trimming settings control how long events are retained in the database.
• Custom modules can provide their own audit trail event handlers.
• Always seal classes.

Enabling Audit Trail

{
  "steps": [
    {
      "name": "Feature",
      "enable": [
        "OrchardCore.AuditTrail"
      ],
      "disable": []
    }
  ]
}

Audit Trail Event Categories

Category	Events	Description
Content	Created, Published, Unpublished, Removed, Cloned, Restored	Tracks content item lifecycle events.
User	LoggedIn, LogInFailed, PasswordReset, PasswordChanged	Tracks user authentication and account events.

Audit Trail Event List Features

Feature	Description
Date Range Filter	Filter events to a specific time period.
Category Filter	Filter by event category (e.g., Content, User).
Sorting	Sort entries by various parameters (date, category, user).
Version Link	Click to view the read-only editor of a content item at that version.
Display Text Link	Click to edit the latest version of the content item.
View Button	View the content item at the recorded version.
Restore Button	Restore a content item to a previous version (creates a draft).
Details Link	View detailed event information, including textual diffs for content events.