diff --git a/src/ScadaLink.NotificationOutbox/NotificationOutboxActor.cs b/src/ScadaLink.NotificationOutbox/NotificationOutboxActor.cs
index 9c0d02d..0681d81 100644
--- a/src/ScadaLink.NotificationOutbox/NotificationOutboxActor.cs
+++ b/src/ScadaLink.NotificationOutbox/NotificationOutboxActor.cs
@@ -270,6 +270,24 @@ public class NotificationOutboxActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
     /// status transition. A missing adapter parks the notification; otherwise the
     /// <see cref="DeliveryOutcome"/> drives the transition. The updated row is always persisted.
     /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// <para>
+    /// M4 Bundle B2: a single
+    /// <see cref="AuditChannel.Notification"/>/<see cref="AuditKind.NotifyDeliver"/>
+    /// row is emitted with <see cref="AuditStatus.Attempted"/> per attempt
+    /// (success, transient, permanent). The emission is wrapped in a
+    /// try/catch so a thrown audit writer NEVER aborts the user-facing
+    /// dispatch — the <see cref="CentralAuditWriter"/> itself swallows
+    /// internal failures, but the dispatcher wraps defensively per
+    /// alog.md §13. The missing-adapter park path also emits an Attempted
+    /// row because it IS an attempt from the dispatcher's point of view.
+    /// </para>
+    /// <para>
+    /// Attempt duration is measured around the adapter call and recorded on
+    /// the Attempted row so downstream KPIs can compute per-attempt latency
+    /// without joining to the row update timestamps.
+    /// </para>
+    /// </remarks>
     private async Task DeliverOneAsync(
         Notification notification,
         DateTimeOffset now,
@@ -280,14 +298,28 @@ public class NotificationOutboxActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
     {
         if (!adapters.TryGetValue(notification.Type, out var adapter))
         {
+            // Missing-adapter park: from the dispatcher's perspective this is an
+            // attempt that resolved to a park, so we emit the Attempted row
+            // alongside the row update.
+            var missingAdapterError = $"no delivery adapter for type {notification.Type}";
             notification.Status = NotificationStatus.Parked;
-            notification.LastError = $"no delivery adapter for type {notification.Type}";
+            notification.LastError = missingAdapterError;
             notification.LastAttemptAt = now;
             await outboxRepository.UpdateAsync(notification);
+            EmitAttemptAudit(
+                notification,
+                now,
+                durationMs: 0,
+                errorMessage: missingAdapterError);
             return;
         }
 
+        // Measure the attempt duration around the adapter call so the
+        // Attempted row carries it for KPI use.
+        var attemptStart = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow;
         var outcome = await adapter.DeliverAsync(notification);
+        var durationMs = (int)Math.Min(
+            int.MaxValue, Math.Max(0, (DateTimeOffset.UtcNow - attemptStart).TotalMilliseconds));
 
         switch (outcome.Result)
         {
@@ -322,6 +354,86 @@ public class NotificationOutboxActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
         }
 
         await outboxRepository.UpdateAsync(notification);
+
+        // Emit the per-attempt Attempted row exactly once regardless of the
+        // outcome (B2). The error message comes from the outcome, not from
+        // notification.LastError, so a success row is null and a transient
+        // row carries the SMTP failure reason verbatim.
+        EmitAttemptAudit(
+            notification,
+            now,
+            durationMs: durationMs,
+            errorMessage: outcome.Result == DeliveryResult.Success ? null : outcome.Error);
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Emits a single
+    /// <see cref="AuditChannel.Notification"/>/<see cref="AuditKind.NotifyDeliver"/>
+    /// audit row with <see cref="AuditStatus.Attempted"/>. Wrapped in
+    /// try/catch so an audit-write failure never propagates back into the
+    /// dispatcher loop — the <see cref="CentralAuditWriter"/> already
+    /// swallows, this is defensive (alog.md §13).
+    /// </summary>
+    private void EmitAttemptAudit(
+        Notification notification,
+        DateTimeOffset now,
+        int durationMs,
+        string? errorMessage)
+    {
+        try
+        {
+            var evt = BuildNotifyDeliverEvent(notification, now, AuditStatus.Attempted, errorMessage)
+                with { DurationMs = durationMs };
+            // Fire-and-forget — we do NOT await: the dispatcher loop must not
+            // be blocked by audit IO, and the writer swallows its own faults.
+            // PipeTo is not used because the writer never throws.
+            _ = _auditWriter.WriteAsync(evt);
+        }
+        catch (Exception ex)
+        {
+            _logger.LogWarning(
+                ex,
+                "Failed to emit Attempted audit row for notification {NotificationId}.",
+                notification.NotificationId);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Builds a <see cref="AuditChannel.Notification"/>/<see cref="AuditKind.NotifyDeliver"/>
+    /// row with the per-notification provenance fields (correlation id, list
+    /// name, source site/instance/script) populated from
+    /// <paramref name="notification"/>. <see cref="AuditEvent.CorrelationId"/>
+    /// parses the notification's id as a Guid; sites generate the id with
+    /// <c>Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N")</c> so the parse always succeeds, but
+    /// a non-Guid id is recorded as null rather than crashing the dispatcher.
+    /// </summary>
+    private static AuditEvent BuildNotifyDeliverEvent(
+        Notification notification,
+        DateTimeOffset now,
+        AuditStatus status,
+        string? errorMessage)
+    {
+        Guid? correlationId = Guid.TryParse(notification.NotificationId, out var parsed)
+            ? parsed
+            : null;
+
+        return new AuditEvent
+        {
+            EventId = Guid.NewGuid(),
+            OccurredAtUtc = now.UtcDateTime,
+            Channel = AuditChannel.Notification,
+            Kind = AuditKind.NotifyDeliver,
+            CorrelationId = correlationId,
+            // Central dispatch — no authenticated actor (the originating
+            // script's identity is captured on the upstream NotifySend row).
+            Actor = null,
+            SourceSiteId = notification.SourceSiteId,
+            SourceInstanceId = notification.SourceInstanceId,
+            SourceScript = notification.SourceScript,
+            Target = notification.ListName,
+            Status = status,
+            ErrorMessage = errorMessage,
+        };
     }
 
     /// <summary>
diff --git a/tests/ScadaLink.NotificationOutbox.Tests/NotificationOutboxActorAttemptEmissionTests.cs b/tests/ScadaLink.NotificationOutbox.Tests/NotificationOutboxActorAttemptEmissionTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..728ddc1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/ScadaLink.NotificationOutbox.Tests/NotificationOutboxActorAttemptEmissionTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,252 @@
+using Akka.Actor;
+using Akka.TestKit.Xunit2;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions;
+using NSubstitute;
+using ScadaLink.Commons.Entities.Audit;
+using ScadaLink.Commons.Entities.Notifications;
+using ScadaLink.Commons.Interfaces.Repositories;
+using ScadaLink.Commons.Interfaces.Services;
+using ScadaLink.Commons.Types.Enums;
+using ScadaLink.NotificationOutbox.Delivery;
+using ScadaLink.NotificationOutbox.Messages;
+
+namespace ScadaLink.NotificationOutbox.Tests;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// M4 Bundle B (B2) — verifies the <see cref="NotificationOutboxActor"/>
+/// dispatcher loop emits exactly ONE
+/// <see cref="AuditChannel.Notification"/>/<see cref="AuditKind.NotifyDeliver"/>
+/// audit row with <see cref="AuditStatus.Attempted"/> per attempt regardless of
+/// the delivery outcome (success, transient, permanent). Terminal-state
+/// emission is covered separately in
+/// <see cref="NotificationOutboxActorTerminalEmissionTests"/>.
+/// </summary>
+public class NotificationOutboxActorAttemptEmissionTests : TestKit
+{
+    private readonly INotificationOutboxRepository _outboxRepository =
+        Substitute.For<INotificationOutboxRepository>();
+
+    private readonly INotificationRepository _notificationRepository =
+        Substitute.For<INotificationRepository>();
+
+    private readonly RecordingCentralAuditWriter _auditWriter = new();
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Recording writer so each test can assert on the events captured during
+    /// one dispatch tick without depending on a concrete implementation.
+    /// </summary>
+    private sealed class RecordingCentralAuditWriter : ICentralAuditWriter
+    {
+        public List<AuditEvent> Events { get; } = new();
+        public Func<AuditEvent, Task>? OnWrite { get; set; }
+
+        public Task WriteAsync(AuditEvent evt, CancellationToken ct = default)
+        {
+            lock (Events)
+            {
+                Events.Add(evt);
+            }
+
+            return OnWrite?.Invoke(evt) ?? Task.CompletedTask;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private IServiceProvider BuildServiceProvider(IEnumerable<INotificationDeliveryAdapter> adapters)
+    {
+        var services = new ServiceCollection();
+        services.AddScoped(_ => _outboxRepository);
+        services.AddScoped(_ => _notificationRepository);
+        foreach (var adapter in adapters)
+        {
+            services.AddScoped<INotificationDeliveryAdapter>(_ => adapter);
+        }
+
+        return services.BuildServiceProvider();
+    }
+
+    private sealed class StubAdapter : INotificationDeliveryAdapter
+    {
+        private readonly Func<DeliveryOutcome> _outcome;
+        public int CallCount;
+
+        public StubAdapter(Func<DeliveryOutcome> outcome) { _outcome = outcome; }
+
+        public NotificationType Type => NotificationType.Email;
+
+        public Task<DeliveryOutcome> DeliverAsync(
+            Notification notification, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
+        {
+            Interlocked.Increment(ref CallCount);
+            return Task.FromResult(_outcome());
+        }
+    }
+
+    private IActorRef CreateActor(IEnumerable<INotificationDeliveryAdapter> adapters)
+    {
+        return Sys.ActorOf(Props.Create(() => new NotificationOutboxActor(
+            BuildServiceProvider(adapters),
+            new NotificationOutboxOptions { DispatchInterval = TimeSpan.FromHours(1) },
+            (ICentralAuditWriter)_auditWriter,
+            NullLogger<NotificationOutboxActor>.Instance)));
+    }
+
+    private static Notification MakeNotification(
+        Guid? notificationId = null,
+        string sourceSite = "site-1",
+        int retryCount = 0)
+    {
+        return new Notification(
+            (notificationId ?? Guid.NewGuid()).ToString("D"),
+            NotificationType.Email,
+            "ops-team",
+            "Tank overflow",
+            "Tank 3 level critical",
+            sourceSite)
+        {
+            RetryCount = retryCount,
+            CreatedAt = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow,
+            SourceInstanceId = "instance-42",
+            SourceScript = "AlarmScript",
+        };
+    }
+
+    private void SetupSmtpRetryPolicy(int maxRetries, TimeSpan retryDelay)
+    {
+        var config = new SmtpConfiguration("smtp.example.com", "Basic", "noreply@example.com")
+        {
+            MaxRetries = maxRetries,
+            RetryDelay = retryDelay,
+        };
+        _notificationRepository.GetAllSmtpConfigurationsAsync(Arg.Any<CancellationToken>())
+            .Returns(new[] { config });
+    }
+
+    private List<AuditEvent> EventsByStatus(AuditStatus status)
+    {
+        lock (_auditWriter.Events)
+        {
+            return _auditWriter.Events.Where(e => e.Status == status).ToList();
+        }
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Attempt_Success_EmitsOneEvent_KindNotifyDeliver_StatusAttempted()
+    {
+        SetupSmtpRetryPolicy(maxRetries: 5, retryDelay: TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1));
+        var id = Guid.NewGuid();
+        var notification = MakeNotification(notificationId: id, sourceSite: "site-alpha");
+        _outboxRepository.GetDueAsync(Arg.Any<DateTimeOffset>(), Arg.Any<int>(), Arg.Any<CancellationToken>())
+            .Returns(new[] { notification });
+        var adapter = new StubAdapter(() => DeliveryOutcome.Success("ops@example.com"));
+        var actor = CreateActor([adapter]);
+
+        actor.Tell(InternalMessages.DispatchTick.Instance);
+
+        AwaitAssert(() =>
+        {
+            var attempted = EventsByStatus(AuditStatus.Attempted);
+            Assert.Single(attempted);
+            var evt = attempted[0];
+            Assert.Equal(AuditChannel.Notification, evt.Channel);
+            Assert.Equal(AuditKind.NotifyDeliver, evt.Kind);
+            Assert.Equal(id, evt.CorrelationId);
+            Assert.Equal("ops-team", evt.Target);
+            Assert.Equal("site-alpha", evt.SourceSiteId);
+            Assert.Equal("instance-42", evt.SourceInstanceId);
+            Assert.Equal("AlarmScript", evt.SourceScript);
+            // Central dispatch: actor is null (no authenticated end-user).
+            Assert.Null(evt.Actor);
+            // Successful attempt: no error message.
+            Assert.Null(evt.ErrorMessage);
+        });
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Attempt_TransientFailure_EmitsEvent_StatusAttempted_ErrorMessageSet()
+    {
+        SetupSmtpRetryPolicy(maxRetries: 5, retryDelay: TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1));
+        var notification = MakeNotification(retryCount: 1);
+        _outboxRepository.GetDueAsync(Arg.Any<DateTimeOffset>(), Arg.Any<int>(), Arg.Any<CancellationToken>())
+            .Returns(new[] { notification });
+        var adapter = new StubAdapter(() => DeliveryOutcome.Transient("smtp timeout"));
+        var actor = CreateActor([adapter]);
+
+        actor.Tell(InternalMessages.DispatchTick.Instance);
+
+        AwaitAssert(() =>
+        {
+            var attempted = EventsByStatus(AuditStatus.Attempted);
+            Assert.Single(attempted);
+            Assert.Equal(AuditKind.NotifyDeliver, attempted[0].Kind);
+            Assert.Equal("smtp timeout", attempted[0].ErrorMessage);
+        });
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Attempt_PermanentFailure_EmitsEvent_StatusAttempted_ErrorMessageSet()
+    {
+        SetupSmtpRetryPolicy(maxRetries: 5, retryDelay: TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1));
+        var notification = MakeNotification();
+        _outboxRepository.GetDueAsync(Arg.Any<DateTimeOffset>(), Arg.Any<int>(), Arg.Any<CancellationToken>())
+            .Returns(new[] { notification });
+        var adapter = new StubAdapter(() => DeliveryOutcome.Permanent("invalid recipient address"));
+        var actor = CreateActor([adapter]);
+
+        actor.Tell(InternalMessages.DispatchTick.Instance);
+
+        AwaitAssert(() =>
+        {
+            var attempted = EventsByStatus(AuditStatus.Attempted);
+            Assert.Single(attempted);
+            Assert.Equal(AuditKind.NotifyDeliver, attempted[0].Kind);
+            Assert.Equal("invalid recipient address", attempted[0].ErrorMessage);
+        });
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void AuditWriter_Throws_DeliveryStateUpdate_StillSucceeds()
+    {
+        // Audit failure must NEVER abort the user-facing action: the delivery
+        // outcome must still be persisted via UpdateAsync.
+        SetupSmtpRetryPolicy(maxRetries: 5, retryDelay: TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1));
+        var notification = MakeNotification();
+        _outboxRepository.GetDueAsync(Arg.Any<DateTimeOffset>(), Arg.Any<int>(), Arg.Any<CancellationToken>())
+            .Returns(new[] { notification });
+        var adapter = new StubAdapter(() => DeliveryOutcome.Success("ops@example.com"));
+        _auditWriter.OnWrite = _ => throw new InvalidOperationException("audit dead");
+        var actor = CreateActor([adapter]);
+
+        actor.Tell(InternalMessages.DispatchTick.Instance);
+
+        // Update of the notification row must still happen.
+        AwaitAssert(() =>
+        {
+            _outboxRepository.Received(1).UpdateAsync(
+                Arg.Is<Notification>(n => n.Status == NotificationStatus.Delivered),
+                Arg.Any<CancellationToken>());
+        });
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Attempt_RecordsOccurredAtUtc_AsUtc()
+    {
+        // The OccurredAtUtc on the emitted event must be UTC (all timestamps
+        // are UTC throughout the system).
+        SetupSmtpRetryPolicy(maxRetries: 5, retryDelay: TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1));
+        var notification = MakeNotification();
+        _outboxRepository.GetDueAsync(Arg.Any<DateTimeOffset>(), Arg.Any<int>(), Arg.Any<CancellationToken>())
+            .Returns(new[] { notification });
+        var adapter = new StubAdapter(() => DeliveryOutcome.Success("ops@example.com"));
+        var actor = CreateActor([adapter]);
+
+        actor.Tell(InternalMessages.DispatchTick.Instance);
+
+        AwaitAssert(() =>
+        {
+            var attempted = EventsByStatus(AuditStatus.Attempted);
+            Assert.Single(attempted);
+            Assert.Equal(DateTimeKind.Utc, attempted[0].OccurredAtUtc.Kind);
+        });
+    }
+}