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JIRA: KAFKA-9413

Please note that there was an earlier but now abandoned work here and this current KIP what you're reading is an attempt to tackle the problem from a slightly different angle (described below).

Motivation

Auditing is a reporting functionality to notify other subsystems of the outcome of an authorization. It is used to check the activity of certain entities within a cluster. It is highly demanded in most businesses to have the ability of obtaining audit information in case someone changes cluster configuration (like creation/deletion/modify/description of any topic or ACLs) or even record client events in some environment.

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