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. Content events are recorded automatically when the Contents feature is enabled; enable OrchardCore.Users.AuditTrail to record user events.
• The Audit Trail provides an immutable, auditable log of system events (content changes, user events, etc.).
• Events are logged only for event types that are registered in AuditTrailOptions and enabled in Settings → Audit Trail.
• The audit trail list supports filtering by date range, category, event, user, and correlation ID, 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.
• Client IP address logging is optional and may require GDPR/privacy compliance considerations.
• Trimming settings control how long events are retained in the database (default 10 days).
• Permissions are AuditTrailPermissions.ViewAuditTrail and AuditTrailPermissions.ManageAuditTrailSettings.
• The admin list renders through the shared AdminList shape under the list name AuditTrail, so it follows the site's List/Grid layout (see orchardcore-admin-lists).
• Always seal classes.

Enabling Audit Trail

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

Audit Trail Event Categories