In the fast-paced digital landscape, traditional batch export methods for audit logs are becoming inadequate for compliance teams, prompting a shift towards real-time data streaming for immediate visibility and security. Real-time compliance pipelines, often built on platforms like Apache Kafka, transform audit logging into a proactive process, enabling organizations to detect anomalies, respond promptly to security incidents, and ensure regulatory compliance. Key components of such a system include data accuracy and immutability, long-term retention, security and access control, low-latency processing, and clear auditability. These pipelines not only meet stringent regulations like HIPAA, PCI DSS, and SOC 2 but also foster trust and accountability by providing timely insights into system events. The architecture typically involves ingestion from various sources, real-time processing for normalization and enrichment, durable storage for long-term retention, and accessible interfaces for monitoring and auditing. Furthermore, the future of compliance monitoring is set to evolve with AI-driven anomaly detection, blockchain-inspired immutability, and deeper integration with security platforms, enhancing the proactive and predictive capabilities of security operations.