They asked for the logs. You froze.
If your platform runs on Cloud Foundry, you know the drill. Access logs are lifeblood for tracing activity, proving compliance, passing audits. But getting them ready for inspection—fast, complete, untouchable—is where most teams stumble.
Audit-ready access logs in Cloud Foundry aren’t just “nice to have.” They are proof. Proof that you know who touched what, when they touched it, and that the record hasn’t been tampered with.
The problem: default log drains and ad-hoc exports leave you exposed. Gaps in data, inconsistent formats, and manual stitching of records can kill credibility. Auditors will spot them in seconds.
The solution: a streamlined pipeline from Cloud Foundry system components to immutable storage, with searchable indices and retention that matches your compliance rulebook. That means collecting logs from every app instance, every system event, every relevant API, in real time. No sampling. No silent drops.
Start by enabling log drains to a central endpoint built for long-term storage, not short-term viewing. Protect the pipeline with TLS, authenticate every request, and tag entries at the source with instance IDs and correlation IDs. Enforce write-once-read-many (WORM) policies at the storage layer to seal the data from edits.
Once your logs are indexed, set up queries for common audit patterns: failed logins, privilege escalations, API key usage, source IP changes. Automate these. When an audit request comes in, you should be able to run a report in seconds—not hours.
Cloud Foundry gives you the hooks. It’s on you to stitch them into an audit-grade system. That means building for durability, traceability, and speed from the start. If you’re missing even one, your “audit-ready” promise won’t hold.
You can build all of it yourself. Or you can see it working now. Hoop.dev connects directly with Cloud Foundry, ingests and normalizes every access log, seals them for compliance, and lets you search or export them instantly. It’s built for the moment someone says: “Show me the logs.”
You could deploy it yourself in minutes—and know you’re ready before anyone asks. See it live at hoop.dev.