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Audit services
Published On Jun 11, 2026 - 10:07 AM

Audit services

Learn the audit services Kyndryl Bridge offers.
Within a Kyndryl Bridge account, actions are recorded via an audit service. These records provide a reliable foundation for security and compliance, enabling you to monitor and verify activities that affect operations or procedures.

Pre-requisites

The Bridge Audit service would use the existing bridge roles to manage the audit capabilities; these roles are:
  • Platform Administrator
  • Platform Viewer

Audit page composition

The Audit page displays the following components:
  • Filter: Filter actions by date range, event type, initiator, outcome, or observer. As you filter your results, tags will appear at the top of the window. The Clear All option is always available in case you need to remove the filters.
  • Audit table: A table of events with select details for each event.
  • Export: This option allows exporting the log data in CSV or JSON format.
  • Settings: This option is only available with Admin permissions. This allows us to set the log retention to 30,60 or 90 days.

Navigation to Audit page

Navigate to the Audit page with confidence by following straightforward steps, helping you feel assured in managing audit data efficiently. Use the following procedure to access the Audit page:
  1. From the Console menu, select
    Manage & Administer
    .
  2. Click the
    Logging & Monitoring
    option. The audit page opens.

Audit table

The table shows all actions based on your filter selections, sorted chronologically for each app or service. Each row contains details for a single event. The following columns each display a single type of information:
  • Initiator: User who created the action/log. The user associated with the event.
  • Action: What action was triggered
  • Event type: Provide information about the status of a resource or its attributes and properties.
    • Monitor: Characterizes events that provide information about the status of a resource or of its attributes or properties.
    • Control: Characterizes events that reflect or provide information about the application of a policy or business rule, or more generally express the outcome of a decision-making process.
    • Activity: Characterizes events that provide information about actions having occurred or intended to occur and initiated by some resource or done against some resource.
  • Date: The time at which the event occurred.
  • Target: The resource or endpoint where the action was performed.
  • Outcome: Status of the request, which can be In progress, Success, or Failed.
  • Observer: App/Service in which the action got triggered.
  • Status code: API code
The exported audit file includes significantly more audit metadata than what is shown in the UI.

Retention and archival

Keeping and saving audit data is important for following rules and for internal checks. It is crucial to protect sensitive information from unauthorized access. Audit services need to be flexible to handle more data and transactions as the organization grows. High performance is key for quickly processing and analyzing large amounts of data, which helps provide timely insights and reports, enhancing user experience. By default, audit data is kept for 90 days before it is archived, but platform admins can set shorter periods, such as 60 or 30 days, allowing users to access data from the past 90 days.
You need to have admin permissions to update the retention period. Once the permission is granted, click the Settings button. A window will appear, allowing you to select the data range you need and save the results. A pop-up message indicating that the settings have been saved successfully will appear at the top of the page.

Export

Creating clear audit reports is essential in today’s business environment. They showcase operational effectiveness, build stakeholder trust, and help identify risks and compliance issues. Additionally, strong audit reports enhance accountability and governance.
Users can export audit data in CSV and JSON formats, ensuring transparency. The export includes all relevant information, which can be filtered by date range, observer, (apps/services), initiator, and outcome. Requests for sensitive data, like IP addresses, will be rejected and will not appear. To export specific audit logs,
  1. Click the
    Export
    button; a pop-up window will appear. If no filters are applied, all data will be exported. When filters are used, only matching data will be exported.
  2. Select your preferred format: .CSV or. JSON; there is no default option.
  3. Click the Export button. An export preloader appears, and once the export finishes, a toast notification appears at the top.
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