What is the Atlas Audit log?
The Atlas Audit log is a complete, searchable record of every mutation in your workspace — by every user, by every agent, by every API key, in every product. It exists to make a single question answerable in three clicks…
What is the Atlas Audit log?
The Atlas Audit log is a complete, searchable record of every mutation in your workspace — by every user, by every agent, by every API key, in every product. It exists to make a single question answerable in three clicks: what did the system do, when, and on whose authority?
Why the audit log matters more than the model
Every AI vendor wants to talk about model quality. Latest model. Smarter model. Multi-modal model. These are real. They are not what determines whether your business can safely deploy AI.
What determines that is the question your compliance officer asks the first time something goes wrong: what did the AI do? If you cannot answer, you cannot deploy AI in a business that takes itself seriously.
The audit log is the substrate for every higher-order safety property. It is what makes:
- Incident review possible.
- Compliance review tractable.
- AI feature kill-switches actionable.
- Trust between leadership and the AI-deploying team meaningful.
What Atlas Audit captures
For every mutation:
- The actor (user, agent identity, API key).
- The timestamp.
- The source (IP, client, session).
- The target record (with full record identification).
- The before and after state.
- The authorizing approval (if any).
- The originating tool surface or product.
It is searchable, exportable, summarizable, and tamper-evident. It is the default plan feature, not a paid tier add-on.
What you can do with it
- Compliance review. Filter by AI write actions in the last quarter. Export to CSV. Hand to your compliance officer. Done.
- Incident review. Something went wrong. Filter by the affected record, by the time window, by all actors. Reconstruct the sequence. Identify root cause.
- AI adoption review. Filter by agent identity. See which agents are producing real value vs. running token budget. Tune accordingly.
Why we made it the default
Most platforms ship audit logging at an enterprise tier or as an add-on (Salesforce Shield is the canonical example). The signal is wrong — audit becomes a procurement negotiation, not a default property.
Atlas treats the audit log as the headline feature. It is the load-bearing differentiator for every AI deployment story.
Retention
- Starter / Growth — 90 days.
- Business — 1 year.
- Enterprise — configurable, up to 7 years.
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