Audit logging
Recording who touched personal or sensitive data, in a form an auditor accepts, without hand-writing it in every handler. It is often confused with application logging, which records what the code did rather than who accessed what.
Overview
InCAP
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com.sap.cds:cds-feature-auditlog-ng A CAP Java plugin that sends audit log events to the SAP Audit Log serviceSAP Audit Log serviceIngests compliance audit data from BTP services and applications and keeps it for ninety days by default; retrieval and longer retention are separate services.sap official, btp in the format the Audit Log Event Catalog expects.
com.sap.cds:cds-feature-auditlog-v2 The CAP Java handler that sends the SDK's AuditLog events to the SAP Audit Log serviceSAP Audit Log serviceIngests compliance audit data from BTP services and applications and keeps it for ninety days by default; retrieval and longer retention are separate services.sap official, btp over its API version 2, once a service binding is present.
com.sap.cds:cds-services-bom Ships an AuditLogService for personal data access, personal data modification, configuration change and security events, with a default handler that writes them to the application log; a service binding to SAP Audit Log serviceSAP Audit Log serviceIngests compliance audit data from BTP services and applications and keeps it for ninety days by default; retrieval and longer retention are separate services.sap official, btp v2 needs the separate cds-feature-auditlog-v2 module.
Not covered: The automatic part stops at what the model annotates as personal data: configuration changes and security events are defined as event types, and only the application's own code sends them, through audit.log in Node.js or the AuditLogService methods in Java. It writes the trail and does not read it back: production needs a premium-plan instance of the SAP Audit Log serviceSAP Audit Log serviceIngests compliance audit data from BTP services and applications and keeps it for ninety days by default; retrieval and longer retention are separate services.sap official, btp, and retrieval goes through a separate auditlog-management instance or the SAP Audit Log Viewer.
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InBTP/BAIP
On BTP the audit trail is a service an application writes to, not a library it links. SAP Audit Log serviceSAP Audit Log serviceIngests compliance audit data from BTP services and applications and keeps it for ninety days by default; retrieval and longer retention are separate services.sap official, btp ingests compliance audit data from BTP services and from the applications running on them, and keeps it ninety days by default.
Present, not yet described.
Not covered: At ingestion and the default ninety days. Reading the trail back, and keeping it longer than that, are separate services — so "the platform records it" does not by itself answer the question an auditor asks.
Core-only here reads the SAP-published entries behind the door: the SAP Audit Log serviceSAP Audit Log serviceIngests compliance audit data from BTP services and applications and keeps it for ninety days by default; retrieval and longer retention are separate services.sap official, btp and s4hana-hana-audit-policiess4hana-hana-audit-policiesSQL templates for the SAP HANA audit policies of the database tenant an SAP S/4HANA system uses, in four sets from the mandatory default policies to scenario examples.sap official, btp, which defines audit policies for the HANA database tenant under S/4HANA. It is an assessment of the corpus, and what_core_does is left empty: no page has been checked that states an intent here, and the entries carry their own descriptions and links.
No community artifact is documented here.
Artifacts
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CAP: The Road Ahead - Simplicity in an AI EraCAP: The Road Ahead - Simplicity in an AI EraDevtoberfest 2026 session CAP10, from the head of SAP's Cloud Application Programming Model: forty minutes of live building rather than slides, on the argument that the cheapest code in an AI project is code nobody has to generate. Claude Code builds an invoice-matching workspace from cds init onwards, and each step is one the framework answers rather than the agent: a 42-line domain model that @sap/cds serves as OData and Fiori elements with a status flow, data privacy and change-tracking annotations that produce audit log entries in the console and would reach the SAP Audit Log service once deployed, an imported S/4HANA supplier data product, and semantic matching from a local embedding model after @cap-js/ai is added. The last three steps are annotations: @mcp beside @odata turns the service into an MCP server that a second Claude session queries through @cap-js/mcp, an agent annotation adds the A2A protocol with an agent card and an audit log entry for the agent task, and a skill file gives the agent the matching policy.SAP Developers, published 2026-09-25
Named-User Attribution Across BTP Subaccounts: A Two-Hop IAS Token Exchange for Cloud IntegrationNamed-User Attribution Across BTP Subaccounts: A Two-Hop IAS Token Exchange for Cloud IntegrationA central BTP application that manages Cloud Integration across subaccounts with client_credentials collapses every user into one technical service principal: target subaccounts' role collections are bypassed and the audit log names a service key instead of a person. The post works through a two-hop exchange — an IAS app-to-app hop, then the target subaccount's XSUAA jwt-bearer hop — that carries the calling user's own identity across the subaccount boundary through a shared Cloud Identity Services tenant, so the target subaccount enforces the user's own role collection and records their identity in the audit log. It walks through the IAS app-dependency setup, the AppRouter and SAP Destination service configuration the exchange needs, and states the pattern applies to any XSUAA-protected service in a separate subaccount, not only Cloud Integration.agnissh, published 2026-08-24
BTP Audit Log MCP Server: Security Monitoring with AI AssistantsBTP Audit Log MCP Server: Security Monitoring with AI AssistantsWouter Lemaire builds an MCP server over SAP BTP's Audit Log Retrieval API using odata-mcp-proxy, with a single entity set and zero custom code, so an AI assistant can answer natural-language questions like "Were there any configuration changes yesterday?" by calling AuditLogRecords_list against a BTP destination authenticated with the Audit Log service's service key. It covers the destination setup, the entity-set configuration that maps the PascalCase entity name to a lowercase auditlogrecords path, and handling the API's 500-record pagination limit.published 2026-03-13
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SAP BTP Audit Log Access Just Got Easier - Here’s What’s NewSAP BTP Audit Log Access Just Got Easier - Here’s What’s NewAnnounces that the Audit Log Viewer no longer needs a per-subaccount subscription: entitlement and setup now happen automatically in every subaccount of SAP Audit Log service. It also adds a viewer at the Global Account level, opened directly from the BTP cockpit rather than through a dedicated instance.AnisaTuscano, published 2026-03-10
Implementing Custom Audit Logging in SAP CAP ApplicationsImplementing Custom Audit Logging in SAP CAP ApplicationsWhere the annotations stop. CAP logs personal-data operations automatically once a model is annotated; this is about the events that are not that — an unauthorised access attempt, a business action somebody wants a trail for — and what writing those yourself involves.gopalanand, published 2025-10-09
Integrating SAP Cloud Identity Services (Identity Authentication - IAS) with SAP Audit Log ViewerIntegrating SAP Cloud Identity Services (Identity Authentication - IAS) with SAP Audit Log ViewerWalks through wiring an Identity Authentication tenant of Cloud Identity Services into the SAP Audit Log service on SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry: from the tenant's Monitoring & Reporting tile, adding the target BTP subaccount's tenant ID and subdomain ties the two together, and after a 15-20 minute wait the resulting Audit Log Viewer link surfaces logs of personal-data changes and of successful and failed authentications. Logs are then filtered by date and keyword, each entry carrying its event category, event and object type, timestamp, and the user who performed the action.Yogananda, published 2025-03-23
How to enable SAP Audit Log Viewer service to collect all Audit logs from BTP Services - Part 1How to enable SAP Audit Log Viewer service to collect all Audit logs from BTP Services - Part 1Walks through subscribing to the SAP Audit Log service's viewer app from the SAP BTP cockpit and creating a RoleCollection from the auditlog-management and auditlog-viewer role templates, assigned to a user or by a rule on the IDP's SAML assertion, to read audit logging events in a subaccount. The post's own update notes that a BTP release from 19 February 2026 removed the need for that role-assignment step. It also lists which Cloud Foundry services write audit log events, pointing to each service's own auditing page rather than detailing them here.Yogananda, published 2025-03-07
How to implement SAP BTP Audit log service in a CAP ApplicationHow to implement SAP BTP Audit log service in a CAP ApplicationThe setup half: binding the BTP Audit Log service to a CAP application and getting the annotated path working, which is the step before anything custom becomes a question.KrishnaSharma7, published 2025-01-01
How to implement SAP BTP Audit log service in a CAP Application
@cap-js/audit-logging has been through 2 major lines since this was published: 0.9 (2025-06), 1 (2025-07). Affects A recipe.
Microsoft Sentinel for SAP goes agentlessMicrosoft Sentinel for SAP goes agentlessExplains how Microsoft Sentinel for SAP's new agentless data connector drops its Docker-based collector agent by reusing an existing SAP Cloud Connector setup together with SAP Integration Suite: on SAP NetWeaver 750 and later, a small set of RFC function modules must be reachable from Integration Suite, added as an RFC connection in the subaccount's Destinations maintenance view, with a user authorised to call them (RFC connectivity). It also covers calling the audit log API remotely, which on older releases needs SAP note 3054326 and a different integration-package configuration.published 2024-12-17
Nice patch SAP! Revisiting your SAP BTP security measures after AI Core vulnerability fixNice patch SAP! Revisiting your SAP BTP security measures after AI Core vulnerability fixWritten after the SAPwned disclosure in SAP AI Core, it argues SAP BTP's shared-responsibility model still requires the customer's own hardening: scope SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry Runtime and SAP BTP, Kyma runtime app access, rotate OAuth2 client-credentials secrets, and enforce MFA and Conditional Access through a corporate identity provider rather than relying on SAP's patch alone. It then explains how the SAP Audit Log service writes standardized events for most Cloud Foundry BTP services, and walks through onboarding a BTP subaccount into Microsoft Sentinel for SAP BTP to query those logs with Kusto and build detection rules that flag unexpected login countries or known-bad IPs and trigger automatic user blocks.published 2024-07-25
SAP BTP Audit log Enable and retrieve logsSAP BTP Audit log Enable and retrieve logsWalks through enabling and retrieving records from the SAP Audit Log service on SAP BTP's Cloud Foundry environment: the default oAuth2 service plan retains audit data for 90 days at no cost, while the premium plan adds a configurable retention period and lets an application write its own audit data. Covers the three subscription plans (premium, default for a subaccount, central for a global account) and the CLI steps to create a service instance and key, then retrieve records as JSON through the Auditlog Management Service's REST API using an OAuth2 client-credentials token in Postman.anikesh_jyotishi2, published 2024-07-12
Integrate SAP Business Technology Platform audit logs with IBM Security QRadarIntegrate SAP Business Technology Platform audit logs with IBM Security QRadarWalks through pulling entries from the SAP Audit Log service for a Cloud Foundry subaccount, via its retrieval API and a service key downloaded from the SAP Authorization and Trust Management service, into IBM Security QRadar as a Universal Cloud REST API log source. A sample audit event, a data read event under audit.data-access, drives a custom QRadar DSM mapping event ID and category, then the walkthrough deletes a user from a Kyma role collection and shows the matching audit logging entry arrive in QRadar as an offense.TusharTrivedi12, published 2024-01-03
Introducing the Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP)Introducing the Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP)SAP's own general-availability announcement for CAP, laid out as a Golden Path: a data model and service defined in CDS gets a generated service provider that serves metadata publishing and CRUD requests, fills in primary keys and audit data, and writes trace and audit logs without application code. The same CDS model carries annotations that translate to OData vocabularies and generate a Fiori elements app skeleton, which is how Fiori annotations work in CAP.Daniel7, published 2018-06-05
BTP Audit Log MCP Server: Security Monitoring with AI AssistantsBTP Audit Log MCP Server: Security Monitoring with AI AssistantsWouter Lemaire builds an MCP server over SAP BTP's Audit Log Retrieval API using odata-mcp-proxy, with a single entity set and zero custom code, so an AI assistant can answer natural-language questions like "Were there any configuration changes yesterday?" by calling AuditLogRecords_list against a BTP destination authenticated with the Audit Log service's service key. It covers the destination setup, the entity-set configuration that maps the PascalCase entity name to a lowercase auditlogrecords path, and handling the API's 500-record pagination limit.published 2026-03-13
Integrating SAP Cloud Identity Services (Identity Authentication - IAS) with SAP Audit Log ViewerIntegrating SAP Cloud Identity Services (Identity Authentication - IAS) with SAP Audit Log ViewerWalks through wiring an Identity Authentication tenant of Cloud Identity Services into the SAP Audit Log service on SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry: from the tenant's Monitoring & Reporting tile, adding the target BTP subaccount's tenant ID and subdomain ties the two together, and after a 15-20 minute wait the resulting Audit Log Viewer link surfaces logs of personal-data changes and of successful and failed authentications. Logs are then filtered by date and keyword, each entry carrying its event category, event and object type, timestamp, and the user who performed the action.Yogananda, published 2025-03-23
How to enable SAP Audit Log Viewer service to collect all Audit logs from BTP Services - Part 1How to enable SAP Audit Log Viewer service to collect all Audit logs from BTP Services - Part 1Walks through subscribing to the SAP Audit Log service's viewer app from the SAP BTP cockpit and creating a RoleCollection from the auditlog-management and auditlog-viewer role templates, assigned to a user or by a rule on the IDP's SAML assertion, to read audit logging events in a subaccount. The post's own update notes that a BTP release from 19 February 2026 removed the need for that role-assignment step. It also lists which Cloud Foundry services write audit log events, pointing to each service's own auditing page rather than detailing them here.Yogananda, published 2025-03-07
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Nice patch SAP! Revisiting your SAP BTP security measures after AI Core vulnerability fixNice patch SAP! Revisiting your SAP BTP security measures after AI Core vulnerability fixWritten after the SAPwned disclosure in SAP AI Core, it argues SAP BTP's shared-responsibility model still requires the customer's own hardening: scope SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry Runtime and SAP BTP, Kyma runtime app access, rotate OAuth2 client-credentials secrets, and enforce MFA and Conditional Access through a corporate identity provider rather than relying on SAP's patch alone. It then explains how the SAP Audit Log service writes standardized events for most Cloud Foundry BTP services, and walks through onboarding a BTP subaccount into Microsoft Sentinel for SAP BTP to query those logs with Kusto and build detection rules that flag unexpected login countries or known-bad IPs and trigger automatic user blocks.published 2024-07-25
SAP BTP Audit log Enable and retrieve logsSAP BTP Audit log Enable and retrieve logsWalks through enabling and retrieving records from the SAP Audit Log service on SAP BTP's Cloud Foundry environment: the default oAuth2 service plan retains audit data for 90 days at no cost, while the premium plan adds a configurable retention period and lets an application write its own audit data. Covers the three subscription plans (premium, default for a subaccount, central for a global account) and the CLI steps to create a service instance and key, then retrieve records as JSON through the Auditlog Management Service's REST API using an OAuth2 client-credentials token in Postman.anikesh_jyotishi2, published 2024-07-12
Integrate SAP Business Technology Platform audit logs with IBM Security QRadarIntegrate SAP Business Technology Platform audit logs with IBM Security QRadarWalks through pulling entries from the SAP Audit Log service for a Cloud Foundry subaccount, via its retrieval API and a service key downloaded from the SAP Authorization and Trust Management service, into IBM Security QRadar as a Universal Cloud REST API log source. A sample audit event, a data read event under audit.data-access, drives a custom QRadar DSM mapping event ID and category, then the walkthrough deletes a user from a Kyma role collection and shows the matching audit logging entry arrive in QRadar as an offense.TusharTrivedi12, published 2024-01-03
Implementing Custom Audit Logging in SAP CAP ApplicationsImplementing Custom Audit Logging in SAP CAP ApplicationsWhere the annotations stop. CAP logs personal-data operations automatically once a model is annotated; this is about the events that are not that — an unauthorised access attempt, a business action somebody wants a trail for — and what writing those yourself involves.gopalanand, published 2025-10-09
How to implement SAP BTP Audit log service in a CAP ApplicationHow to implement SAP BTP Audit log service in a CAP ApplicationThe setup half: binding the BTP Audit Log service to a CAP application and getting the annotated path working, which is the step before anything custom becomes a question.KrishnaSharma7, published 2025-01-01
How to implement SAP BTP Audit log service in a CAP Application
@cap-js/audit-logging has been through 2 major lines since this was published: 0.9 (2025-06), 1 (2025-07). Affects A recipe.
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SAP-samples/btp-secure-developmentSAP-samples/btp-secure-developmentA hands-on OWASP Top 10 workshop that exploits and then fixes security flaws in a CAP Node.js application, covering broken access control, SQL injection and audit logging for sensitive data.sap official, cap
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teched2022-XP260teched2022-XP260An SAP TechEd 2022 session on configuring SAP BTP services according to SAP's published security recommendations: a custom identity provider, multi-factor authentication, password policy and audit logs.sap official, btp
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teched2023-XP185vteched2023-XP185vAn SAP hands-on session that applies SAP's published BTP security recommendations to a live trial account, from multi-factor authentication to the audit log and administrative authorizations.sap official, btp
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teched2025-XP260teched2025-XP260An SAP TechEd 2025 workshop on embedding security into CAP applications on SAP BTP, worked through three of the OWASP Top 10 risks: broken access control, SQL injection and logging failures.sap official, cap
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