Softechlog Blog https://softechlog.com/blog Engineering and product notes on building activity logging infrastructure for SaaS — written by the founders, as it happens. en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT How to add an audit log to your SaaS in 30 minutes https://softechlog.com/blog/add-audit-log-to-saas-in-30-minutes https://softechlog.com/blog/add-audit-log-to-saas-in-30-minutes A copy-paste tutorial: instrument eight security-relevant events in a Node backend, mint a feed token, and ship a customer-facing audit page — before your coffee goes cold. Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Audit log vs activity feed vs analytics: which one do you need? https://softechlog.com/blog/audit-log-vs-activity-feed-vs-analytics https://softechlog.com/blog/audit-log-vs-activity-feed-vs-analytics Three features that look identical in a database and serve completely different masters. How to tell which one your customers are actually asking for — and why analytics tools make bad audit logs. Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Build vs buy: audit logs for B2B SaaS https://softechlog.com/blog/build-vs-buy-audit-logs-b2b-saas https://softechlog.com/blog/build-vs-buy-audit-logs-b2b-saas What an audit log API actually costs to build in-house — the schema, the ingest path, the read path, the retention job — and when buying is the smarter call. Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Designing an activity event schema (actor / action / target) https://softechlog.com/blog/activity-event-schema-actor-action-target https://softechlog.com/blog/activity-event-schema-actor-action-target The event schema behind every good activity feed: naming rules, denormalization decisions, and the anti-patterns that quietly ruin your audit trail. Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT What a customer-facing audit trail needs before SOC 2 https://softechlog.com/blog/customer-facing-audit-trail-before-soc2 https://softechlog.com/blog/customer-facing-audit-trail-before-soc2 Completeness, immutability, retention, scoped access, export — the concrete requirements, with code instead of compliance-speak. Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Why every SaaS ends up rebuilding the same activity log https://softechlog.com/blog/why-we-built-softechlog https://softechlog.com/blog/why-we-built-softechlog Event tables, ad-hoc schemas, brittle timelines — we kept building the same infrastructure at every company. Here is why we decided to build it once, properly, for everyone. Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT