Audit Collector
Definition
The Audit Collector is a platform component that captures and stores authorization decision events. It records which access decisions were made, by which policies, for which actors and resources. The Audit Collector provides an immutable audit trail for compliance, forensics, and operational review.
The Audit Collector is separate from the platform observability pipeline. Observability covers general telemetry signals (logs, metrics, traces) collected through OpenTelemetry. The Audit Collector focuses specifically on authorization decision records.