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title: Audit framework
description: Configure and understand the PingGateway audit framework, including audit log timestamps and the objects available for auditing
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# Audit framework

PingGateway uses the common audit framework to record audit events.

Audit logs use timestamps in UTC format, for example, `2024-07-10T09:35:12.335Z`, a unified standard not affected by time changes for daylight savings. The timestamp format isn't configurable.

The following objects are available for auditing:

* [AuditService](AuditService.html)

* [CsvAuditEventHandler](CsvAuditEventHandler.html)

* [ElasticsearchAuditEventHandler (deprecated)](ElasticsearchAuditEventHandler.html)

* [JdbcAuditEventHandler](JdbcAuditEventHandler.html)

* [JmsAuditEventHandler](JmsAuditEventHandler.html)

* [JsonAuditEventHandler](JsonAuditEventHandler.html)

* [JsonStdoutAuditEventHandler](JsonStdoutAuditEventHandler.html)

* [NoOpAuditService](NoOpAuditService.html)

* [SplunkAuditEventHandler (deprecated)](SplunkAuditEventHandler.html)

* [SyslogAuditEventHandler](SyslogAuditEventHandler.html)