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Auditing
Once Spring Security is in play, Spring Boot Actuator has a flexible audit framework that publishes events (by default, “authentication success”, “failure” and “access denied” exceptions). This feature can be very useful for reporting and for implementing a lock-out policy based on authentication failures.
You can enable auditing by providing a bean of type AuditEventRepository
in your application’s configuration.
For convenience, Spring Boot offers an InMemoryAuditEventRepository
.
InMemoryAuditEventRepository
has limited capabilities, and we recommend using it only for development environments.
For production environments, consider creating your own alternative AuditEventRepository
implementation.
Custom Auditing
To customize published security events, you can provide your own implementations of AbstractAuthenticationAuditListener
and AbstractAuthorizationAuditListener
.
You can also use the audit services for your own business events.
To do so, either inject the AuditEventRepository
bean into your own components and use that directly or publish an AuditApplicationEvent
with the Spring ApplicationEventPublisher
(by implementing ApplicationEventPublisherAware
).