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go-audit

Forensics & Incident Response

A modern, type‑safe Go replacement for the Linux auditd daemon that outputs JSON and supports pluggable pipelines

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Features

  • Written in safe, performant Go (type‑safe language)
  • Emits logs as structured JSON
  • Pluggable output pipelines (syslog, file, Graylog2, stdout, etc.)
  • Connects to the Linux kernel via netlink for low‑latency auditing

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Alternative to

auditd

Beta — feedback welcome: [email protected]