AI audit logs
An audit log and an audit trail are usually the same thing described two ways: the log is the entries, the trail is what those entries add up to when you follow them through a decision from start to finish.
AI audit trail
An AI audit trail, sometimes called AI auditability, is a record of every action an AI system and the people managing it took: who asked what, what the agent answered, who corrected it, and when a setting changed. The record only does its job if it cannot be quietly edited afterward, which is a stronger requirement than simply being logged.
AI decision audit trail, AI compliance audit trail, and AI agent audit logs
Three names for the same underlying record used for three different purposes. A decision audit trail reconstructs why one particular answer was given. A compliance audit trail is that same record handed to someone outside the business, an auditor or a regulator, as evidence rather than as an explanation. An agent audit log is the record filtered down to one agent, which matters once a company is running more than a handful of them and needs to look at one at a time.
Tamper-evident AI logs
Tamper-evident means an alteration is detectable, not merely that alteration is discouraged. Augela hash-chains every entry, so each one's hash depends on the entry before it: editing or deleting a past entry breaks every hash that comes after it, and that break is what re-verification on export catches. A log that can be quietly edited after the fact is not evidence, it is a claim.
AI accountability
Accountability needs an answer to two questions a log alone does not provide: who owns this agent, and who is responsible for the rules it operates under. Augela assigns an owner to every agent, with a sensible fallback if nobody was ever explicitly assigned, so accountability does not depend on someone remembering who set it up.
AI activity logs
An activity log is broader than an audit trail: every request, every retry, every background check an agent runs. An audit trail is the subset of that activity that matters for accountability and compliance, kept to the same tamper-evident standard as everything else, rather than every log line a system happens to produce.
AI governance audit
A governance audit is the moment the audit trail is handed to somebody outside daily operations to review. The record exports to CSV or JSON with the hash chain re-verified at export time, and can stream to a company's own security monitoring system if it has one, so the evidence a governance audit needs does not have to be assembled by hand after the fact.
