Smart.Traceking 8.1.6

Smart.ActivityLog Profiler & Monitoring

Smart.ActivityLog is a comprehensive .NET monitoring and profiling package for tracking, visualizing, and auditing all significant actions and events in your system. The package provides a full-featured API and ready-to-use UI for developers and administrators to analyze activity, trace requests, and ensure system observability and security.

Developed and maintained by Echonovatech.

Features

• Automatic Activity Logging: Captures all relevant API activity (user, endpoints, methods, status codes, errors, querystrings, headers, IP, connection IDs, request/response bodies).
• Security Auditing: Enables security teams to audit user actions, detect suspicious patterns, and analyze system usage.
• Issue Tracing and Debugging: Stores exception messages, stack traces, and full request/response cycles for post-mortem analysis.
• Live Monitoring UI: Out-of-the-box dashboards for viewing live logs, usage graphs, and active connections.
• SignalR Integration: Real-time log updates to the UI using SignalR.
• Session Traceability: Tracks all user sessions and connection IDs for complete traceability.
• GDPR/PII Awareness: Designed to help you comply with privacy requirements (optional masking or filter for sensitive data).
• Extensible: Add custom fields, adapt to your models, and integrate with your own audit/monitoring strategy.
• Flexible Storage (coming soon): Custom storage providers will be supported in future releases.

Data Collected

• User: Email and unique identifiers
• Date and Time: Timestamp of every event
• Action Type: Login, access, modification, etc.
• Route/Endpoint: and HTTP method (GET, POST, etc.)
• Parameters and Querystrings
• Request and Response Headers
• Status Code: of the response
• IP Address and Client Type
• Request and Response Body (where applicable)
• Error Messages and Exception Traces
• Connection ID: for session and request tracking

UI Modules

• Activity Log: View the latest events and filter/search them in real time.
• Traceability: Graphical view of usage and event flows.
• Connections: List and analyze currently active sessions and connection details.

2. Configuration & Privacy

Add the Smart.ActivityLog services to your API and configure privacy options:

using Smart.ActivityLog;

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    services.AddActivityLogServer(options =>
    {
        // (Optional) Set an application name for logs
        options.ApplicationName = "My API";
    });

    // Your other services
    services.AddControllers();
}

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IWebHostEnvironment env)
{
    // Add the Activity Log dashboard UI
    app.UseActivityLogDashboard();

    // Your other middleware
    app.UseRouting();
    app.UseEndpoints(endpoints => { endpoints.MapControllers(); });
}

Privacy Features:

• Sensitive Data Masking: (Future) When enabled, request/response bodies and headers will be filtered to mask or omit sensitive values before persisting.
• Custom Storage Provider: (Future) You will be able to provide your own storage implementation for compliance or on-premises privacy requirements.
• PII Management: Extend options to add additional privacy controls (e.g., custom masking logic, retention policy).

3. UI Integration

The dashboard UI is available at /activitylog (or your configured path) after enabling app.UseActivityLogDashboard();.
You can embed the provided dashboard or reuse partials in your own admin interface.

4. SignalR for Live Updates

Enable real-time log updates with SignalR (the package will automatically use /activityLogHub if SignalR is enabled).

5. Advanced Privacy

• Custom Masking: (Future) Implement your own logic for masking or redacting fields by extending the options or implementing a custom mask handler.
• Retention Policy: (Future) Add logic in your storage provider to auto-delete logs after a retention period.
• Role-based Access: Restrict access to logs via your own authentication/authorization middleware.

About Echonovatech

Smart.ActivityLog is developed and maintained by Echonovatech.

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