Audit
How the audit log works in Galaxy
Galaxy records every meaningful action — who did what, to which data, and when — so you can trace activity, catch anomalies, and prove your data is governed.
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Events — a complete record.
Every query, export, permission change, and sync writes an immutable event with the actor, the target, and a timestamp. Nothing meaningful happens off the record.
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Traces — follow a request end to end.
A trace stitches the related events of a single action together, so you can see exactly what a query touched and which systems it reached.
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Alerts — know when something's off.
Define rules — an external user exporting restricted data, a spike in failed access — and Galaxy raises an alert the moment the pattern appears.
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Lineage — where data came from.
Lineage maps how a value flowed from source to result, so when a number in a report looks wrong you can walk it back to its origin.