Event data is a synonym to an audit trail. Modern computer software applications and IT infrastructure have adopted the term event data over audit trail. Events are typically recorded in logs and there is no standard for the format of event type data.
Examples of the use of this new term to describe audit trails are becoming more common and the term is cited in the documentation of the Microsoft Event Viewer which provides visibility into events in the following logs: Application log, security log, System log, Directory service log, File Replication service log and DNS server log.
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