Audit-Ready File Transfer — Structured Evidence for Every Transfer

Audit-Ready File Transfer

An audit-ready file transfer system produces structured, traceable evidence for every file that moves through it — so operators and reviewers can answer what happened and when without reconstructing history from application logs.

What Xferity produces for audit

Every flow run in Xferity writes structured JSON audit events including:

timestamp and correlation ID
flow name and run ID
file name, local and remote paths
idempotency key
outcome and error details
partner context

When tamper-evidence is enabled, events also include:

chain_seq
prev_hash
event_hash

These fields link each event to the previous one so any gap or modification would break the chain.

File lifecycle tracing

Operators can trace a single file through its complete lifecycle:

xferity trace orders-2026-03-16.csv

This queries the audit sidecar index and returns all audit events involving that filename.

Export for external retention

The audit log is append-only JSONL. It can be:

shipped to a SIEM with standard log forwarding tools
queried via the HTTP API at GET /api/audit?file=<basename>
retained locally with configurable day-based rotation

Limits

Audit-ready does not mean compliance-guaranteed. Audit logging improves traceability but does not replace:

external immutable retention
access controls on the Xferity host
SIEM-level event correlation