Managing and monitoring
Every organization has policies around data access and data use that need to be honored. In addition, there are compliance guidelines in some regulated industries to prove that compliance is honored, using an audit trail of the types of user access and manipulation of the data. Hence, there is a need to be able to set the controls in place, detect whether something has been changed, and provide a transparent audit trail. This includes access to raw data as well as via tables that are an artifact on top of the data.
The metrics collected from these logs need to be compared over a period of time to understand trend lines. Delta’s versioning capability comes in handy to monitor not only operations done on a table but metrics logged as well. It would be fair to say that these metrics need more permanence and some date/time stamp would be used to log them.
There are several types of logs in a system. The main ones include the following:
- Audit...