# Pervasive Auditing

### Audit Logging

Every action within the StrongDM application is logged in a tamper-proof repository that is not accessible to account administrators. This includes every User authentication, query, SSH, and RDP command as well as administrator actions such as permission changes.

### Audit History

Through the use of the `sdm` command line tool, Customer administrators can review a variety of data points as they currently are, or as they were at any point in time in the past. Audit history can be exported in a number of formats, including JSON and CSV, to provide evidence to auditors or feed into internal tooling.


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