How to consume audit logs from Elastic Cloud Enterprise

Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) allows organizations to efficiently manage and update the Elastic Stack through a web user interface backed by an API-first approach, where every action in the UI corresponds to an API call. These API interactions are logged in the internal logging and metrics cluster, enabling users to create alerts for critical events using Kibana rules and alerting. The article outlines how audit logs can track various activities, such as user logins, deployment changes, and role mappings, all of which are vital for maintaining security and operational insights. It further demonstrates how to craft Elasticsearch queries or use threshold alerts for monitoring purposes and emphasizes the importance of combining these events into a dashboard to monitor ECE activities effectively.