# Artifact Registry: Audit Logs, Traceability, Usage Reporting

DevFeed: [Artifact Registry: Audit Logs, Traceability, Usage Reporting](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/artifact-registry-audit-logs-traceability-usage-reporting-13483.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.harness.io/blog/staying-in-control-auditing-and-reporting-with-harness-artifact-registry>)

Author: Shibam Dhar

Published: 2026-07-23T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Harness Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/harness-blog.md>)

Topics: [audit trail](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/audit-trail.md>), [CI/CD](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cicd.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>)

Tags: [audit](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/audit.md>), [ci-cd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ci-cd.md>), [compliance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compliance.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [logs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/logs.md>), [provenance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/provenance.md>), [reporting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reporting.md>), [visibility](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/visibility.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how Harness Artifact Registry provides audit trails, access logs, deployment traceability, and custom metadata for tracking artifact usage across its lifecycle. It describes records for actions such as pushes, pulls, deletions, policy evaluations, and quarantine events, including the actor and timing. The article also explains how pipeline downloads can be linked to deployment context and pipeline runs.

## Source excerpt

Learn how Harness Artifact Registry gives your organisation complete visibility into artifact usage through audit trails, RBAC-governed access logs, deployment | Blog