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Change Tracking

Change Tracking in Cloudaware CMDB captures configuration drift, object lifecycle events (create, update, delete), relationship changes, and ownership/tag updates for configuration items (CIs) discovered from cloud providers, Breeze, and third‑party tools.

Use Cases​

Change data underpins many common workflows:

  • Investigating incidents and outages with a precise “what changed?” timeline.
  • Verifying that infrastructure changes followed Change Management processes and approvals.
  • Detecting unapproved or risky modifications (for example, security group changes or backup/monitoring coverage gaps).
  • Preparing evidence for audits and compliance attestations.

Capabilities​

Change tracking combines:

Change Events​

Learn how Cloudaware detects, normalizes, and records changes to CIs, relationships, lifecycle state, and metadata. Use this guide when you need to understand event types, identify event sources, or send change data to automation, ITSM, SIEM, or Change Management workflows.

History & Audit​

Review field-level history, timelines, previous values, users, processes, and timestamps for CMDB records. Use this guide when investigating incidents, validating approved changes, preparing audit evidence, or exporting change history for external analysis.

Alerts & Notifications​

Scope, route, and tune change-related notifications so important CMDB changes reach the right teams and systems. Use this guide when creating alerts for critical assets, ownership-based routing, coverage removal, security-sensitive changes, or periodic change digests.