MOVEit Transfer delivers a full suite of logging and reporting features for daily operations and interactions with the system, incident diagnosis, (troubleshooting), forensics, and audits. The audit logging feature also provides controls for tamper detection.

Table 1. Survey of Logs and Reporting MOVEit Transfer
Logging/Reporting Feature, Control, or Protocol
Audit Logs
  • Record user interactions with the system (such as failed sign-on attempts).
  • Default retention for 30 days.
  • Archive as XML feature.
  • Download as XML, .csv, Excel.
  • Tamper-evident.
  • Viewable based on user's current role permissions.
  • Include Event Log, Syslog, and errors and exceptions.
Diagnostic Logs
  • Server and system logging.
  • Broken down by client interface and server.
MFT Database Transaction Log
  • Records all MFT transactions.
  • Journal of all SQL transactions for a given period.
  • Provides recovery of individual or incomplete transactions.
  • Supports High Availability and disaster recovery.
Scheduled and Custom Reporting
  • Get or schedule reports on system performance and status.
  • Run custom queries against the MFT database schema.
Server Performance Monitoring
  • Remote or local performance counters.
  • Easy to add right from Windows Server.
  • Both system and Organization-level metrics.