Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for operations related to intelligent action logging for cloud applications. An embodiment operates by identifying an event associated with an application executing on the processor. The event is compared to criteria for logging the event in one or more of a plurality of logs. The log includes its own unique criteria for logging the event. If it is determined that the event satisfies the criteria of the action log, then detail about the event are written onto an action log using a log format associated with the action log, which is different from a log format of a technical log.