Kubernetes audit logs provide detailed records of all activities and events in the cluster, capturing every change to enable change tracking, issue troubleshooting, and regulatory compliance. These logs record API requests to the Kubernetes API server, including requests from users executing kubectl commands and internal requests from Kubernetes components and controllers. By maintaining a centralized audit trail of all API interactions, administrators and security teams can monitor security monitoring, change tracking, compliance reporting, and forensic investigations, as well as detect unauthorized access attempts or suspicious activities, identify insider threats, implement security information and event management (SIEM), and support evidence gathering and reporting requirements during incident response procedures. Kubernetes audit logs are not enabled by default and must be explicitly configured by defining an audit policy that specifies what events should be logged at what level of detail.