Linux, file access auditing, is there such a thing?

Question

linux

On Windows servers, you can configure file access auditing and after that you can see in the log when and which user opened a file / folder, created, deleted, etc. Is there a similar functionality in Linux systems?

Answer 1

Yes, there is, and very different.
1) There is inotify - an internal kernel file tracking mechanism
2) There is SELinux - a security system
3) there is auditd