Cloud Architecture Security Cheat Sheet — Logging & Monitoring

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). Logging and monitoring is required for a truly secure application. Developers should know exactly what is going on in their environment, making use of alerting mechanisms to warn engineers when systems are not working as expected. Additionally, in the event of a security incident, logging should be verbose enough to track a threat actor through an entire application, and provide enough knowledge for respondents to understand what actions were taken against what resources. Note that proper logging and monitoring can be expensive, and risk/cost trade-offs should be discussed when putting logging in place. Attribution: Adapted from OWASP Cheat Sheet Series under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, removed long code blocks, and shortened it for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.