---
title: "Payment Audit"
description: "Search a payment or request and inspect the full routing timeline"
---

## What It Shows

Payment Audit is the operator-facing timeline view for a single payment or request.

Use it when you want to answer questions like:

- which gateway was decided for this payment
- which priority rule was hit
- whether a score update succeeded or failed
- what structured event payload was captured at each step

The page is designed for exact lookups first and broad operator filtering second.

## Search Inputs

The page supports these filters:

- `payment_id`
- `request_id`
- `gateway`
- `route`
- `status`
- `flow_type`
- time window: `15m`, `1h`, `12h`, `1d`, `1w`

Use an exact `payment_id` when you have it. If you only have a request trace, use `request_id`.
Payment Audit is always merchant-scoped by the authenticated JWT or API key. The route does not
accept `scope` or `merchant_id` query params.

## Timeline Stages

The timeline is built from analytics events captured by the live request flows.

Current stages include:

- `gateway_decided`
- `rule_applied`
- `score_updated`
- `preview_evaluated`
- `request_read_failed`
- `validation_failed`
- `request_parse_failed`
- `score_update_failed`

The raw flow type remains visible as well, for example `decide_gateway_decision`,
`decide_gateway_rule_hit`, `update_gateway_score_update`, or `routing_evaluate_advanced`.

## Data Sources

Payment Audit reads from the same ClickHouse analytics store used by the analytics surface.

The read path is split intentionally:

- exact `payment_id` / `request_id` lookups read the raw `analytics_domain_events` timeline
- broad search results read pre-aggregated `analytics_payment_audit_summary_buckets`

Both views correlate events through the write-time `lookup_key`, which prefers `payment_id` and
falls back to `request_id`.

Relevant fields include:

- `merchant_id`
- `payment_id`
- `request_id`
- `event_stage`
- `route`
- `gateway`
- `routing_approach`
- `rule_name`
- `status`
- `error_code`
- `error_message`
- `details`

The `details` field is shown as structured JSON when available.

## Route

When the dashboard profile is running, open:

- `http://localhost:8081/dashboard/audit`

## Related Files

- `website/src/components/pages/PaymentAuditPage.tsx`
- `src/routes/analytics.rs`
- `src/analytics/models.rs`
- `src/analytics/service.rs`
- `src/decider/gatewaydecider/`
- `src/feedback/gateway_scoring_service.rs`

## Related Docs

- [Analytics](/decision-engine-api-reference/analytics) — the broader operator-facing metrics view.
- [ClickHouse Analytics](/decision-engine-api-reference/clickhouse-analytics) — the underlying ingestion pipeline and schema.
- [Dashboard](/decision-engine-api-reference/dashboard-guide) — where this view is surfaced.