AU-03 Content Of Audit Records

Last modified: May 22, 2026

Introduction

This document describes how Private Mendix Platform fulfills the AU-03 control.

Control ID AU-03
Control category AU - Audit and Accountability
Requirement baseline FEDRAMP MODERATE
Responsibility and ownership Mendix - Private Mendix Platform, Mendix - Operator, Mendix - Studio Pro/Runtime, Customer - Infra

Control

The information system generates audit records containing information that establishes what type of event occurred, when the event occurred, where the event occurred, the source of the event, the outcome of the event, and the identity of any individuals or subjects associated with the event.

Supplemental Guidance

The audit records content that may be necessary to satisfy the requirement of this control, includes, for example, time stamps, source and destination addresses, user and process identifiers, event descriptions, success or fail indications, filenames involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked. The event outcomes can include indicators of event success or failure, and event-specific results (for example, the security state of the information system after the event occurred).

The following controls are related to this control:

  • AU-2
  • AU-8
  • AU-12
  • SI-11

Responsibility

Mendix Responsibility

Private Mendix Platform logs and stores every action by every user, as well as displays and outputs logs according to the action log detail level setting.

Customer Responsibility

The customer is responsible for configuring the log detail level for the display and output of action logs.

Guidance

Mendix Responsibility

  • Private Mendix Platform provides the Log Settings tab at Customer Admin > Manage > (Platform) > Activity Log > Log Settings.
  • Private Mendix Platform always logs and stores every action by every user.
  • Private Mendix Platform displays and outputs logs according to the action log detail level setting.

Customer Responsibility

The customer is responsible for configuring the log detail level for the display and output of action logs.

Proof and Remarks

Private Mendix Platform provides a setting to configure the detail level of the action log (Event, Summary, Complete):

Private Mendix Platform displays activity logs when the detail level of the action log is set to Event:

Private Mendix Platform displays activity logs when the detail level of the action log is set to Summary:

Private Mendix Platform displays activity logs when the detail level of the action log is set to Complete: