Auditing

Auditing in Spring Data MongoDB enables automatic tracking and storing of entity modifications. With minimal configuration, we can capture important information, like creation and modification timestamps, as well as user-related details. This auditing feature simplifies tracking changes, enhances data history, and provides valuable insights into data management and accountability in MongoDB.

Auditing metadata in document classes

We’ll add a few properties in the POJOs that map the auditing metadata field in the database.

The Book document

Let’s add properties like createdBy, createdDate, lastModifiedBy, and lastModifiedDate to the Book class. The underlying Spring Data MongoDB will take care of updating the database with the corresponding fields in the BOOK ...