This episode teaches how to decide which audit events must be captured to satisfy exam objectives, investigations, and compliance evidence, without creating a logging firehose that hides the signals you actually need. You’ll learn how to categorize events by risk and purpose, including identity lifecycle changes, authentication and session activity, authorization decisions, privileged actions, data access to sensitive repositories, configuration changes, and security control health signals. We’ll connect event selection to architecture by showing how to define consistent event schemas, capture key context like actor identity and system identifiers, and avoid gaps caused by distributed services, proxies, and cloud abstractions. Practical examples include choosing events that reveal privilege escalation, detecting unusual access to regulated data, and recording administrative changes that alter monitoring or security policies. Troubleshooting considerations include over-logging low-value events, under-logging the actions that matter most, and inconsistent event fields that make correlation unreliable even when “everything is logged.” Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, where you’ll find more cyber audio courses, books, and information to strengthen your educational path. Also, if you want to stay up to date with the latest news, visit DailyCyber.News for a newsletter you can use, and a daily podcast you can commute with.