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term: "Automatic logging"
category: "Evidence and audit"
url: https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/automatic-logging
source: AgenticOpenFinance glossary
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# Automatic logging

> Built-in recording of events while a high-risk AI system runs, so its operation can be traced afterwards.

The EU AI Act requires high-risk AI systems to technically allow the automatic recording of events, or logs, over their lifetime, to ensure a level of traceability appropriate to their intended purpose. Logs must support identifying situations that may present a risk or lead to a substantial modification, post-market monitoring and the monitoring of operation by deployers, who must keep the logs under their control for a set minimum period. Logging is a design requirement for the provider, not something a deployer can add afterwards.

Related terms: [Audit trail](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/audit-trail.md), [Post-market monitoring](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/post-market-monitoring.md), [High-risk AI system](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/high-risk-ai-system.md), [Deployer (AI Act)](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/ai-deployer.md)