---
type: User Story
title: Preserve a CloudEvents-style audit trail
description: Authentication, UI, account, Discord, network, and game actions create searchable immutable-style events.
tags: [audit, cloudevents, security, events]
timestamp: 2026-08-14T01:23:35Z
story_id: US-010
status: verified
---

# User Story

As an operator, I want security and identity activity recorded consistently, so that incidents and account changes can be reconstructed and later published to Kafka.

# Acceptance Criteria

- [x] Events preserve CloudEvents-style ID, specification version, source, type, subject, time, content type, and JSON data.
- [x] Events can include user actor, IP address, and correlation ID.
- [x] Portal access, magic-link creation and consumption, account changes, nickname changes, VPN blocks, game decisions, and confirmed proxy connections are recorded.
- [x] Username changes learned from Velocity create their own event.
- [x] Administrative actions include the acting SSO identity in event data.
- [x] Every sent RCON command is represented in the audit ledger with its complete command text and acting SSO identity.
- [x] RCON responses and credentials are never persisted in audit events.
- [x] RCON command events are searchable by command text, server, and administrator.
- [x] Events can be filtered by operator-friendly view and selected event types globally and from an individual user view.
- [x] Every listed event links to a detail page showing its complete CloudEvents envelope and formatted JSON data.
- [x] `published_at` reserves an outbox path for future Kafka publishing.

# Implementation

- [`packages/database/src/events.ts`](../packages/database/src/events.ts)
- [`packages/database/src/schema.ts`](../packages/database/src/schema.ts)
- [`apps/web/src/lib/audit.ts`](../apps/web/src/lib/audit.ts)
- [`apps/web/src/lib/rcon-command-history.ts`](../apps/web/src/lib/rcon-command-history.ts)
- [`apps/web/src/app/admin/(console)/rcon/actions.ts`](../apps/web/src/app/admin/%28console%29/rcon/actions.ts)
- [`apps/web/src/app/admin/(console)/rcon/history/page.tsx`](../apps/web/src/app/admin/%28console%29/rcon/history/page.tsx)
- [`apps/web/src/app/admin/(console)/events/page.tsx`](../apps/web/src/app/admin/%28console%29/events/page.tsx)
- [`apps/web/src/app/admin/(console)/events/[eventId]/page.tsx`](../apps/web/src/app/admin/%28console%29/events/%5BeventId%5D/page.tsx)

# Validation

The shared CloudEvent contract is covered by [`packages/contracts/test/contracts.test.ts`](../packages/contracts/test/contracts.test.ts). RCON action and history tests verify complete command attribution, correlated outcomes, audit-before-send behavior, and response and credential exclusion. All workspace tests, type checks, web lint, OKF validation, Semgrep, dependency audit, and the production build passed on 2026-08-14.

# Related Stories

- [Enrich login IPs](us-007-ip-intelligence.md)
- [Administer users](us-013-admin-user-management.md)
- [Operate servers through an RCON console](us-022-rcon-console.md)