diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5745fe8..5b2683b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -122,25 +122,19 @@ Both model-level directives accept additional options to be passed into ActiveJo
 # For change journaling:
 journal_changes_to :email, as: :identity_change, enqueue_with: { priority: 10 }
 
+# For audit logging:
+has_audit_log enqueue_with: { priority: 30 }
+
 # Or for custom journaling:
 journal_attributes :email, enqueue_with: { priority: 20, queue: 'journaled' }
 ```
 
-### Change Journaling
-
-Out of the box, `Journaled` provides an event type and ActiveRecord
-mix-in for durably journaling changes to your model, implemented via
-ActiveRecord hooks. Use it like so:
-
-```ruby
-class User < ApplicationRecord
-  include Journaled::Changes
-
-  journal_changes_to :email, :first_name, :last_name, as: :identity_change
-end
-```
+### Attribution
 
-Add the following to your controller base class for attribution:
+Before using `Journaled::Changes` or `Journaled::AuditLog`, you will want to
+set up automatic "actor" attribution (i.e. tracking the current user session).
+To enable this feature, add the following to your controller base class for
+attribution:
 
 ```ruby
 class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
@@ -153,6 +147,20 @@ end
 Your authenticated entity must respond to `#to_global_id`, which ActiveRecords do by default.
 This feature relies on `ActiveSupport::CurrentAttributes` under the hood.
 
+### Change Journaling with `Journaled::Changes`
+
+Out of the box, `Journaled` provides an event type and ActiveRecord
+mix-in for durably journaling changes to your model, implemented via
+ActiveRecord hooks. Use it like so:
+
+```ruby
+class User < ApplicationRecord
+  include Journaled::Changes
+
+  journal_changes_to :email, :first_name, :last_name, as: :identity_change
+end
+```
+
 Every time any of the specified attributes is modified, or a `User`
 record is created or destroyed, an event will be sent to Kinesis with the following attributes:
 
@@ -179,6 +187,213 @@ journaling. Note that the less-frequently-used methods `toggle`,
 `increment*`, `decrement*`, and `update_counters` are not intercepted at
 this time.
 
+
+### Audit Logging with `Journaled::AuditLog`
+
+Journaled includes a feature for producing audit logs of changes to your model.
+Unlike `Journaled::Changes`, which will emit individual sets of changes as
+"logical" events, `Journaled::AuditLog` will log all changes in their entirety,
+unless otherwise told to ignore changes to specific columns.
+
+This behavior is similar to
+[papertrail](https://github.com/paper-trail-gem/paper_trail),
+[audited](https://github.com/collectiveidea/audited), and
+[logidze](https://github.com/palkan/logidze), except instead of storing
+changes/versions locally (in your application's database), it emits them to
+Kinesis (as Journaled events).
+
+#### Audit Log Configuration
+
+To enable audit logging for a given record, use the `has_audit_log` directive:
+
+```ruby
+class MyModel < ApplicationRecord
+  has_audit_log
+
+  # This class will now be audited,
+  # but will ignore changes to `created_at` and `updated_at`.
+end
+```
+
+To ignore changes to additional columns, use the `ignore` option:
+
+```ruby
+class MyModel < ApplicationRecord
+  has_audit_log ignore: :last_synced_at
+
+  # This class will be audited,
+  # and will ignore changes to `created_at`, `updated_at`, and `last_synced_at`.
+end
+```
+
+By default, changes to `updated_at` and `created_at` will be ignored (since
+these generally change on every update), but this behavior can be reconfigured:
+
+```ruby
+# change the defaults:
+Journaled::AuditLog.default_ignored_columns = %i(createdAt updatedAt)
+
+# or append new defaults:
+Journaled::AuditLog.default_ignored_columns += %i(modified_at)
+
+# or disable defaults entirely:
+Journaled::AuditLog.default_ignored_columns = []
+```
+
+Subclasses will inherit audit log configs:
+
+```ruby
+class MyModel < ApplicationRecord
+  has_audit_log ignore: :last_synced_at
+end
+
+class MySubclass < MyModel
+  # this class will be audited,
+  # and will ignore `created_at`, `updated_at`, and `last_synced_at`.
+end
+```
+
+To disable audit logs on subclasses, use `skip_audit_log`:
+
+```ruby
+class MySubclass < MyModel
+  skip_audit_log
+end
+```
+
+Subclasses may specify additional columns to ignore (which will be merged into
+the inherited list):
+
+```ruby
+class MySubclass < MyModel
+  has_audit_log ignore: :another_field
+
+  # this class will ignore `another_field`, IN ADDITION TO `created_at`, `updated_at`,
+  # and any other fields specified by the parent class.
+end
+```
+
+To temporarily disable audit logging globally, use the `without_audit_logging` directive:
+
+```ruby
+Journaled::AuditLog.without_audit_logging do
+  # Any operation in here will skip audit logging
+end
+```
+
+#### Audit Log Events
+
+Whenever an audited record is created, updated, or destroyed, a
+`journaled_audit_log` event is emitted. For example, calling
+`user.update!(name: 'Bart')` would result in an event that looks something like
+this:
+
+```json
+{
+  "id": "bc7cb6a6-88cf-4849-a4f0-a31b0b199c47",
+  "event_type": "journaled_audit_log",
+  "created_at": "2022-01-28T11:06:54.928-05:00",
+  "class_name": "User",
+  "table_name": "users",
+  "record_id": "123",
+  "database_operation": "update",
+  "changes": { "name": ["Homer", "Bart"] },
+  "snapshot": null,
+  "actor": "gid://app_name/AdminUser/456",
+  "tags": {}
+}
+```
+
+The field breakdown is as follows:
+
+- `id`: a randomly-generated ID for the event itself
+- `event_type`: the type of event (always `journaled_audit_log`)
+- `created_at`: the time that the action occurred (should match `updated_at` on
+  the ActiveRecord)
+- `class_name`: the name of the ActiveRecord class
+- `table_name`: the underlying table that the class interfaces with
+- `record_id`: the primary key of the ActiveRecord
+- `database_operation`: the type of operation (`insert`, `update`, or `delete`)
+- `changes`: the changes to the record, in the form of `"field_name":
+  ["from_value", "to_value"]`
+- `snapshot`: an (optional) snapshot of all of the record's columns and their
+  values (see below).
+- `actor`: the current `Journaled.actor`
+- `tags`: the current `Journaled.tags`
+
+#### Snapshots
+
+When records are created, updated, and deleted, the `changes` field is populated
+with only the columns that changed. While this keeps event payload size down, it
+may make it harder to reconstruct the state of the record at a given point in
+time.
+
+This is where the `snapshot` field comes in! To produce a full snapshot of a
+record as part of an update, set use the virtual `_log_snapshot` attribute, like
+so:
+
+```ruby
+my_user.update!(name: 'Bart', _log_snapshot: true)
+```
+
+Or to produce snapshots for all records that change for a given operation,
+wrap it a `with_snapshots` block, like so:
+
+```ruby
+Journaled::AuditLog.with_snapshots do
+  ComplicatedOperation.run!
+end
+```
+
+Events with snapshots will continue to populate the `changes` field, but will
+additionally contain a snapshot with the full state of the user:
+
+```json
+{
+  "...": "...",
+  "changes": { "name": ["Homer", "Bart"] },
+  "snapshot": { "name": "Bart", "email": "simpson@example.com", "favorite_food": "pizza" },
+  "...": "..."
+}
+```
+
+#### Handling Sensitive Data
+
+Both `changes` and `snapshot` will filter out sensitive fields, as defined by
+your `Rails.application.config.filter_parameters` list:
+
+```json
+{
+  "...": "...",
+  "changes": { "ssn": ["[FILTERED]", "[FILTERED]"] },
+  "snapshot": { "ssn": "[FILTERED]" },
+  "...": "..."
+}
+```
+
+They will also filter out any fields whose name ends in `_crypt` or `_hmac`, as
+well as fields that rely on Active Record Encryption / `encrypts` ([introduced
+in Rails 7](https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_encryption.html)).
+
+This is done to avoid emitting values to locations where it is difficult or
+impossible to rotate encryption keys (or otherwise scrub values after the
+fact), and currently there is no built-in configuration to bypass this
+behavior. If you need to track changes to sensitive/encrypted fields, it is
+recommended that you store the values in a local history table (still
+encrypted, of course!).
+
+#### Caveats
+
+Because Journaled events are not guaranteed to arrive in order, events emitted
+by `Journaled::AuditLog` must be sorted by their `created_at` value, which
+should correspond roughly to the time that the SQL statement was issued.
+**There is currently no other means of globally ordering audit log events**,
+making them susceptible to clock drift and race conditions.
+
+These issues may be mitigated on a per-model basis via
+`ActiveRecord::Locking::Optimistic` (and its auto-incrementing `lock_version`
+column), and/or by careful use of other locking mechanisms.
+
 ### Custom Journaling
 
 For every custom implementation of journaling in your application, define the JSON schema for the attributes in your event.
@@ -338,7 +553,7 @@ Returns one of the following in order of preference:
 * a string of the form `gid://[app_name]` as a fallback
 
 In order for this to be most useful, you must configure your controller
-as described in [Change Journaling](#change-journaling) above.
+as described in [Attribution](#attribution) above.
 
 ### Testing
 
diff --git a/app/models/journaled/audit_log/event.rb b/app/models/journaled/audit_log/event.rb
index abfd759..165ab6a 100644
--- a/app/models/journaled/audit_log/event.rb
+++ b/app/models/journaled/audit_log/event.rb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 #        make sense to move it to lib/.
 module Journaled
   module AuditLog
-    Event = Struct.new(:record, :database_operation, :unfiltered_changes) do
+    Event = Struct.new(:record, :database_operation, :unfiltered_changes, :enqueue_opts) do
       include Journaled::Event
 
       journal_attributes :class_name, :table_name, :record_id,
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ def journaled_stream_name
         AuditLog.default_stream_name || super
       end
 
+      def journaled_enqueue_opts
+        record.class.audit_log_config.enqueue_opts
+      end
+
       def created_at
         case database_operation
           when 'insert'
diff --git a/lib/journaled/audit_log.rb b/lib/journaled/audit_log.rb
index 5071c29..78ca40a 100644
--- a/lib/journaled/audit_log.rb
+++ b/lib/journaled/audit_log.rb
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ module AuditLog
 
     mattr_accessor(:default_ignored_columns) { %i(created_at updated_at) }
     mattr_accessor(:default_stream_name) { Journaled.default_stream_name }
+    mattr_accessor(:default_enqueue_opts) { {} }
     mattr_accessor(:excluded_classes) { DEFAULT_EXCLUDED_CLASSES.dup }
     thread_mattr_accessor(:snapshots_enabled) { false }
     thread_mattr_accessor(:_disabled) { false }
@@ -64,18 +65,37 @@ def classic_exclude!(name)
       end
     end
 
-    Config = Struct.new(:enabled, :ignored_columns) do
-      private :enabled
+    Config = Struct.new(:enabled, :ignored_columns, :enqueue_opts) do
+      def self.default
+        new(false, AuditLog.default_ignored_columns.dup, AuditLog.default_enqueue_opts.dup)
+      end
+
+      def initialize(*)
+        super
+        self.ignored_columns ||= []
+        self.enqueue_opts ||= {}
+      end
+
       def enabled?
         !AuditLog._disabled && self[:enabled].present?
       end
+
+      def dup
+        super.tap do |config|
+          config.ignored_columns = ignored_columns.dup
+          config.enqueue_opts = enqueue_opts.dup
+        end
+      end
+
+      private :enabled
     end
 
     included do
       prepend BlockedMethods
       singleton_class.prepend BlockedClassMethods
 
-      class_attribute :audit_log_config, default: Config.new(false, AuditLog.default_ignored_columns)
+      class_attribute :audit_log_config, default: Config.default
+
       attr_accessor :_log_snapshot
 
       after_create { _emit_audit_log!('insert') }
@@ -84,19 +104,16 @@ def enabled?
     end
 
     class_methods do
-      def has_audit_log(ignore: [])
-        ignored_columns = _audit_log_inherited_ignored_columns + [ignore].flatten(1)
-        self.audit_log_config = Config.new(true, ignored_columns.uniq)
+      def has_audit_log(ignore: [], enqueue_with: {})
+        self.audit_log_config = audit_log_config.dup
+        audit_log_config.enabled = true
+        audit_log_config.ignored_columns |= [ignore].flatten(1)
+        audit_log_config.enqueue_opts.merge!(enqueue_with)
       end
 
       def skip_audit_log
-        self.audit_log_config = Config.new(false, _audit_log_inherited_ignored_columns.uniq)
-      end
-
-      private
-
-      def _audit_log_inherited_ignored_columns
-        (superclass.try(:audit_log_config)&.ignored_columns || []) + audit_log_config.ignored_columns
+        self.audit_log_config = audit_log_config.dup
+        audit_log_config.enabled = false
       end
     end
 
@@ -177,7 +194,7 @@ module BlockedClassMethods
 
     def _emit_audit_log!(database_operation)
       if audit_log_config.enabled?
-        event = Journaled::AuditLog::Event.new(self, database_operation, _audit_log_changes)
+        event = Journaled::AuditLog::Event.new(self, database_operation, _audit_log_changes, audit_log_config.enqueue_opts)
         ActiveSupport::Notifications.instrument('journaled.audit_log.journal', event: event) do
           event.journal!
         end
diff --git a/lib/journaled/version.rb b/lib/journaled/version.rb
index bc37eb6..9f26ec8 100644
--- a/lib/journaled/version.rb
+++ b/lib/journaled/version.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module Journaled
-  VERSION = "5.1.0".freeze
+  VERSION = "5.1.1".freeze
 end
diff --git a/spec/lib/journaled/audit_log_spec.rb b/spec/lib/journaled/audit_log_spec.rb
index 12b7a14..d49cd8c 100644
--- a/spec/lib/journaled/audit_log_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/lib/journaled/audit_log_spec.rb
@@ -66,6 +66,16 @@ def encrypted_attribute?(_key)
     end
   end
 
+  describe '.default_enqueue_opts' do
+    it 'defaults to timestamps, but is configurable' do
+      expect(described_class.default_enqueue_opts).to eq({})
+      described_class.default_enqueue_opts = { priority: 99 }
+      expect(described_class.default_enqueue_opts).to eq(priority: 99)
+    ensure
+      described_class.default_enqueue_opts = {}
+    end
+  end
+
   describe '.excluded_classes' do
     let(:defaults) do
       %w(
@@ -100,15 +110,19 @@ def encrypted_attribute?(_key)
     it 'enables/disables audit logging' do
       expect(subject.audit_log_config.enabled?).to be(false)
       expect(subject.audit_log_config.ignored_columns).to eq(%i(DEFAULTS))
+      expect(subject.audit_log_config.enqueue_opts).to eq({})
       subject.has_audit_log
       expect(subject.audit_log_config.enabled?).to be(true)
       expect(subject.audit_log_config.ignored_columns).to eq(%i(DEFAULTS))
-      subject.has_audit_log ignore: %i(foo bar baz)
+      expect(subject.audit_log_config.enqueue_opts).to eq({})
+      subject.has_audit_log ignore: %i(foo bar baz), enqueue_with: { priority: 30 }
       expect(subject.audit_log_config.enabled?).to be(true)
       expect(subject.audit_log_config.ignored_columns).to eq(%i(DEFAULTS foo bar baz))
+      expect(subject.audit_log_config.enqueue_opts).to eq(priority: 30)
       subject.skip_audit_log
       expect(subject.audit_log_config.enabled?).to be(false)
       expect(subject.audit_log_config.ignored_columns).to eq(%i(DEFAULTS foo bar baz))
+      expect(subject.audit_log_config.enqueue_opts).to eq(priority: 30)
     end
 
     it 'can be composed with multiple calls' do
@@ -140,13 +154,17 @@ def encrypted_attribute?(_key)
       it 'inherits the config by default, and merges ignored columns' do
         expect(MySubclass.audit_log_config.enabled?).to be(false)
         expect(MySubclass.audit_log_config.ignored_columns).to eq(%i(DEFAULTS))
-        subject.has_audit_log ignore: %i(foo)
+        expect(MySubclass.audit_log_config.enqueue_opts).to eq({})
+        subject.has_audit_log ignore: %i(foo), enqueue_with: { priority: 10 }
         expect(MySubclass.audit_log_config.enabled?).to be(true)
         expect(MySubclass.audit_log_config.ignored_columns).to eq(%i(DEFAULTS foo))
-        MySubclass.has_audit_log ignore: :bar
+        expect(MySubclass.audit_log_config.enqueue_opts).to eq(priority: 10)
+        MySubclass.has_audit_log ignore: :bar, enqueue_with: { priority: 30 }
         expect(MySubclass.audit_log_config.enabled?).to be(true)
         expect(subject.audit_log_config.ignored_columns).to eq(%i(DEFAULTS foo))
+        expect(subject.audit_log_config.enqueue_opts).to eq(priority: 10)
         expect(MySubclass.audit_log_config.ignored_columns).to eq(%i(DEFAULTS foo bar))
+        expect(MySubclass.audit_log_config.enqueue_opts).to eq(priority: 30)
       end
 
       it 'allows the subclass to skip audit logging, and vice versa' do