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[role="xpack"]
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[[auditing]]
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== Auditing security events
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You can enable auditing to keep track of security-related events such as
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authentication failures and refused connections. Logging these events enables you
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to monitor your cluster for suspicious activity and provides evidence in the
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event of an attack.
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[IMPORTANT]
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Audit logs are **disabled** by default. To enable this functionality, you
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must set `xpack.security.audit.enabled` to `true` in `elasticsearch.yml`.
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============================================================================
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The audit log persists events to a dedicated `<clustername>_audit.log` file on
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the host's file system (on each node).
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