# Audit trail[¶](https://doc.dataiku.com/dss/latest/operations/audit-trail/index.html#audit-trail "Permalink to this headline")

DSS includes an audit trail that logs all actions performed by the users, with details about user id, timestamp, IP address, authentication method, …

* Viewing the audit trail in DSS

* Default storage of audit trail

* Audit centralization and dispatch

+ Audit dispatching

+ Log4J target

+ EventServer target

+ Kafka target

* The DSS Event Server

+ Installing the event server

+ Configuration of the event server

+ Security

+ Limitations

* Configuration for API nodes

+ Automatic configuration through API deployer

- Automatic send to event server

+ Sample setup: easy case

- Setup once (as admin)

- For each service (as user)

- Behind the scenes

+ Sample setup: high-security API node centralization

- Setup once (as admin)

- For each service (as admin)

- For each service (as user)

+ Manual usage

* Audit data

+ Events envelopes

- In standard audit log files

- In Event Server data files

+ Event data

- For “generic” topic

- For “apinode-query” topic

- For “compute-resource-usage” topic
