Audit Logs

An audit trail no admin can edit, tested live on your call

Every change made inside your Insightful account, with the actor, the role and the values that changed. Ask for a record on the call and check it arrives unaltered.

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The challenge

You can't check the one claim the whole trail rests on

Every vendor states that the log cannot be altered, and the sentence clears the questionnaire. A compliance function answering to a regulator cannot sign its name to something nobody has tested.

The solution

Ask for a record on the call and check it

Every account action is recorded with the user, their role, the object affected and the old and new values. No user, including an admin, can edit or delete an entry.

No user, not even an admin

There is no role inside your account that can edit or delete an entry, including the one that created it.

The before, not just the after

Most trails record that something changed. This records what it was and what it became, which is the half a reviewer needs.

Tested, not asserted

Every vendor writes this sentence and it clears the questionnaire. Ask for a record during the demo instead, and read what arrives.

Two gates on the way in

Workspace Security is a paid add-on purchased alongside Workforce Analytics, and this trail sits inside it.

Connected to your work

The trail proves who changed it, not what happened

One trail answers who changed what. Add the device-level record beside it, the controls it is evidence for, and the hours a manual approval is attached to, and a single table becomes a governance layer.

Activity Logs

The other record: what happened on a managed device, applications and pages with timestamps. Different product, adjacent question, routinely confused.

Workspace Security

The controls this trail is evidence for, available as a paid add-on purchased alongside Workforce Analytics.

Insider Risk Management

The program the trail underwrites: named seats, a stated capture depth, and every administrative action written where no user can alter it.

Time and Attendance

The hours a manual approval in this trail is attached to, which is what a billing or payroll dispute turns on.

Workforce Visibility

Hours, applications and working patterns per team, read next to the trail of who changed them.

CISO

Ask for a record on the call, read the old and new values, and confirm nothing was edited.

Replaces

Two teams stop taking the record on faith

Replaces

The vendor assurance you cannot test

They use it to

Ask for a record on the evaluation call, read the old and new values against the change, and confirm nothing was edited.

Measured in

Claims verified, not accepted

Replaces

The reconstruction after a billing dispute

They use it to

Show every manually added hour with the named approver attached, which is the record a disputed invoice turns on.

Measured in

Disputed hours defended

Compliance and security

What a reviewer gets besides our word

A trail is only as good as what sits around it. Records are admin-only, held where you choose, and the scope behind them is published rather than described.

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Admin-only, scoped by role
The table is not visible to a manager or an employee. Splitting admin access further, by department, is in development rather than shipped.
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Collection scope, published
What is captured is documented signal by signal, versioned and dated, so a reviewer reads a document rather than a paragraph.
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Encryption and residency
AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2 in transit, keys held in Google Cloud KMS. Residency in the US, EU or Saudi Arabia, with on-premise available.
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Your SIEM ingests this trail, it does not replace it

Audit records export into a SIEM or GRC platform, where estate-wide events belong. What a SIEM cannot show is who changed a setting inside Insightful, which is the entry a reviewer asks for. 50+ integrations across the platform.

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FAQs

What is an audit log?

An audit log is a record of every action taken inside a system: who did it, when, and what changed, held so that no user can alter it. Insightful records account actions with the user, their role, their IP address, the object affected and the old and new values. The test worth running is not whether a vendor says the trail cannot be altered, because they all say it. It is whether they will produce a record while you are on the call and let you check it.

Can anyone edit or delete an audit log entry?

No. No user, including an admin, can alter or remove an entry. Manual time entries additionally require a named approver, and the approval is recorded in the same trail. You do not have to take that on our word, and you should not: ask for a record during the demo and check what arrives.

What is the difference between Audit Logs and Activity Logs?

Audit Logs records what happened inside your Insightful account: settings changes, user updates and billing adjustments, each tied to the admin who made it. Activity Logs records what happened on a managed device: which applications and pages were open, and for how long. Different products, bought the same way, and the names do them no favors.

Is Audit Logs included in Workforce Analytics?

No. It belongs to Workspace Security, a paid add-on purchased alongside Workforce Analytics, so a Workforce Analytics subscription on its own does not include this trail. Availability by plan is on the pricing page.

Who can see the audit log, and can that be scoped?

Admins only. The table is not visible to managers or employees, and access is scoped by role. Records are encrypted with AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.2 in transit, with keys held in Google Cloud KMS. The limit to know: splitting admin access further, by department, is in development rather than shipped, so today an admin is an admin.

How long are audit trail records retained?

The retention window is confirmed on the call rather than stated here. Records are encrypted at rest, with residency in the US, the EU or Saudi Arabia, or on-premise, where longer retention can be configured. If a regulator sets your retention floor, that is the one number worth pinning before signature rather than after.

How quickly can a record be produced for a regulator?

On demand. One compliance function carrying a formal one-hour regulator-access requirement tested this live during evaluation and confirmed the report arrived unaltered. The practical constraint is access rather than speed: the table is admin-only, so whoever has to produce the record on a deadline needs to be an admin before the deadline.

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A claim worth signing off is a claim you can test

Ask for a record during the demo and check it yourself. It answers faster than a compliance questionnaire, and it answers the same question.
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