Automatic Audit Trail for Postgres

What is Bemi?

Bemi is an automatic audit trail solution designed for PostgreSQL databases. It allows businesses to reliably track data changes without the complexities of engineering custom solutions or the costs associated with extensive infrastructure. Bemi offers a seamless setup, connecting to existing PostgreSQL databases in minutes without requiring write permissions.

Key Features of Bemi

Seamless Setup: Connects to PostgreSQL databases in just a few clicks.
Contextualized Data: Integrates with your ORM to provide application context such as API endpoints, user actions, and cron jobs behind each change.
Secure by Default: Employs military-grade encryption for data at rest and in transit, ensuring customer-level isolation.
Stored in Postgres: Keeps your data in an auto-scaled and optimized serverless PostgreSQL database, allowing time-travel queries and integration with your preferred ORM.

How does Bemi work?

Bemi connects to your existing PostgreSQL databases and captures data changes. It enriches this data with application context, providing insights into the “where,” “who,” and “how” behind each change. All data is securely stored in an optimized serverless PostgreSQL database, allowing for time-travel queries and integration with your existing tools.

Why choose Bemi?

Reliability: Ensures 100% reliable and accurate data change tracking.
Contextualization: Provides valuable context to data changes, making it easier to understand and troubleshoot issues.
Security: Offers robust security features, including encryption and customer-level isolation.
Integration: Seamlessly integrates with existing PostgreSQL databases and ORMs.

Who is Bemi for?

Bemi is ideal for businesses needing to track data changes reliably for:

Audit & Compliance: Simplifies data audits and helps meet compliance requirements.
Observability & Troubleshooting: Provides insights for debugging data integrity issues.
Data Recovery: Ensures confidence in recovering from database mishaps.
Building Activity Feeds: Powers data systems by streamlining the creation of activity feeds.

Benefits of Using Bemi

Streamlined Audit and Compliance: Bemi provides a robust and 100% reliable audit trail, helping you streamline data audits and achieve compliance checkmarks. This is particularly valuable for industries with strict regulatory requirements.
Enhanced Observability and Troubleshooting: By providing detailed tracking of data changes, Bemi helps teams quickly visualize modifications and access a comprehensive audit trail. This capability is essential for debugging data integrity issues and ensuring smooth operations.
Simplified Data Recovery: Bemi gives businesses confidence that they can recover from any database mishaps. The ability to track and revert changes ensures minimal data loss and operational disruptions.

Testimonials

Many businesses have found Bemi to be a game-changer:

Joshua Kelly, CTO: "This was what I was looking for and would've saved us so many hours building internal tooling trying to track and surface customer configuration changes."
Álvaro Serrano, CTO: "Bemi has been a game-changer for us!! We’re not in the business of tracking data changes and are now able to concentrate fully on our core logistics product."
James Zammit, Senior Software Engineer: "Data change tracking has been a painpoint in the Node community for as long as I can remember. Making it so easy to integrate with Prisma and TypeORM is a huge deal."
Ed Lui, Founding Engineer: "The ability to quickly visualize modifications and access a comprehensive audit trail has helped us tremendously when debugging data integrity issues. Bemi is an indispensable tool that allows us to focus on innovation rather than getting bogged down in manual data tracking."
K L, Head of Data: "Outside of just a changelog, we’d be excited for Bemi to be the artery powering our data systems."
Sam, Founding Engineer: "We use Prisma in Next.js and Bemi has saved us so many hours setting up audit logs and history tables — by far the cleanest and fastest solution out there!"
George Tong, Tech Lead: "Bemi gives us confidence that any database mishaps can be recovered from. The team's fast response times to customer feature requests is just the cherry on top"
Adam Klein, CTO: "The Bemi team has been amazing and responds ridiculously fast to requests. During the Christmas break, they were able to migrate us to a VPN tunnel last minute due to an external security audit. We used Bemi as the 100% reliable source of truth for our data"

How to use Bemi?

Connect to your PostgreSQL database: Bemi connects in minutes and requires no write permissions.
Integrate with your ORM: Add a few lines of code to enrich data changes with application context.
Make time-travel queries: Use your favorite ORM to query the data and integrate it into your product.

FAQ

What does Bemi do when connecting to a database?
Where are all data changes stored?
Do I need to install an ORM package?
Is Bemi like Git for data and does it implement Event Sourcing?
Is Bemi similar to ETL tools?
What does Bemi mean and how is it pronounced?
Why can’t I build this myself?

In conclusion, Bemi provides a streamlined and secure solution for automatically tracking data changes in PostgreSQL databases. Its ease of use, robust security features, and seamless integration make it an invaluable tool for businesses seeking to enhance their data governance, compliance, and observability. By adopting Bemi, organizations can focus on innovation rather than being bogged down by manual data tracking, thus ensuring data integrity and operational efficiency.