CakePHP AuditStash 2.0: Beyond CRUD

Table of Contents Log anything, not just CRUD A real admin dashboard Native Slack and Discord alert channels Lifecycle hooks for the monitor A real export workflow Security: deny-by-default admin access Forensic capture and a sensitive-field rule Tracking file uploads (hashes, not content) Testing helper trait Where to next The cakephp-audit-stash plugin has grown a lot of new surface between 1.x and the current 2.0. What started out as a behavior that records entity-level CRUD into an audit_logs table is now a full mini-app for observability: custom action events beyond CRUD, a dashboard, a coverage report, native chat alerting, and a streaming exporter. This post walks through the highlights of the new major release, grouped by what they unlock for you as a maintainer of an audited Cake application. Log anything, not just CRUD 2.0’s headline feature is custom action events. The audit trail is no longer limited to Created / Updated / Deleted rows tied to an entity — anything you want…