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Auditing

Explore how to implement auditing in Spring Data Cassandra to automatically track metadata like createdBy and dateCreated. Understand how to configure auditing annotations, set an auditor with AuditorAware, and enable auditing to maintain accountability and data integrity within your Cassandra-based applications.

The auditing feature in Spring Data Cassandra automatically tracks and maintains metadata about data changes, including creation, modification, and deletion. It enhances data governance, traceability, and accountability in Cassandra-based applications, simplifying the implementation of audit trails.

Auditing metadata in the entity classes

First, let’s add a few properties in the POJOs that map the auditing metadata field in the database.

The Book entity

Let’s add properties like createdBy, dateCreated, updatedBy, and dateUpdated ...