The auditing framework provides a mechanism to enable event-based logging that provides a historical record of who did what that caused changes in the Windchill database. The security auditing feature also provides a mechanism to retain historical records of security-related events, such as privilege changes, team changes, and access control permission changes. Security audit reporting is helpful to customers in highly regulated industries that need to identify events that may have resulted in a potential security breach. The following list provides possible application uses that can be recorded:

The collection of classes and configuration files used by the auditing framework can be modified to indicate which specific events are recorded in the audit log.