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Life & fun · February 21, 2022

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Apptrail – SaaS audit trails as a Service

Hi Hacker News! We're Samrose and Shaeq from Apptrail (https://apptrail.com). We let B2B SaaS companies easily add customer-facing audit trails to their products. It's currently too hard to build and consume SaaS audit logs. Organizations use audit logs to access and monitor the activity coming from their SaaS tools for security and compliance reasons. For example, a security admin at an enterprise company would use Slack audit logs to see messages sent and what devices and IP addresses they were sent from. Many SaaS companies don’t offer audit trails to their customers, which…

Apptrail – SaaS audit trails as a Service launched on February 21, 2022 with 12 votes, #1,041 of 2,645 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

In plain words

Apptrail provides B2B SaaS companies with audit trail infrastructure they can integrate into their products. It enables organizations to monitor and access activity logs from SaaS tools for security and compliance purposes, allowing security administrators to track user actions, devices, and IP addresses. The service addresses the challenge of building audit logs from scratch, which is complex and often delayed, while reducing the need for customers to contact support for activity information.

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Hi Hacker News! We're Samrose and Shaeq from Apptrail (https://apptrail.com). We let B2B SaaS companies easily add customer-facing audit trails to their products. It's currently too hard to build and consume SaaS audit logs. Organizations use audit logs to access and monitor the activity coming from their…

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