diff --git a/src/ScadaLink.AuditLog/Site/FallbackAuditWriter.cs b/src/ScadaLink.AuditLog/Site/FallbackAuditWriter.cs
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+++ b/src/ScadaLink.AuditLog/Site/FallbackAuditWriter.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
+using ScadaLink.Commons.Entities.Audit;
+using ScadaLink.Commons.Interfaces.Services;
+
+namespace ScadaLink.AuditLog.Site;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Composes the primary <see cref="SqliteAuditWriter"/> with a drop-oldest
+/// <see cref="RingBufferFallback"/>. Audit writes are best-effort by contract
+/// (see <see cref="IAuditWriter"/>) — a primary failure must NEVER bubble out
+/// to the calling script. Failed events are stashed in the ring; on the next
+/// successful primary write the ring is drained back through the primary in
+/// FIFO order.
+/// </summary>
+/// <remarks>
+/// <para>
+/// Each primary failure increments <see cref="IAuditWriteFailureCounter"/> so
+/// Site Health Monitoring can surface a sustained outage as
+/// <c>SiteAuditWriteFailures</c> (Bundle G).
+/// </para>
+/// <para>
+/// Errors raised by the ring drain on recovery are logged and silently dropped
+/// so we don't loop the failure mode — the trigger event itself succeeded, and
+/// retrying the drain on the NEXT successful write is the recovery path.
+/// </para>
+/// </remarks>
+public sealed class FallbackAuditWriter : IAuditWriter
+{
+    private readonly IAuditWriter _primary;
+    private readonly RingBufferFallback _ring;
+    private readonly IAuditWriteFailureCounter _failureCounter;
+    private readonly ILogger<FallbackAuditWriter> _logger;
+    private readonly SemaphoreSlim _drainGate = new(1, 1);
+
+    public FallbackAuditWriter(
+        IAuditWriter primary,
+        RingBufferFallback ring,
+        IAuditWriteFailureCounter failureCounter,
+        ILogger<FallbackAuditWriter> logger)
+    {
+        _primary = primary ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(primary));
+        _ring = ring ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(ring));
+        _failureCounter = failureCounter ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(failureCounter));
+        _logger = logger ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(logger));
+    }
+
+    public async Task WriteAsync(AuditEvent evt, CancellationToken ct = default)
+    {
+        ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(evt);
+
+        try
+        {
+            await _primary.WriteAsync(evt, ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
+        }
+        catch (Exception ex)
+        {
+            // Primary down: record the failure, stash in the ring, return
+            // success to the caller. Audit-write failures NEVER abort the
+            // user-facing action (alog.md §7). DO NOT attempt the ring drain
+            // here — primary is throwing, draining would just scramble FIFO
+            // order across re-enqueues.
+            _failureCounter.Increment();
+            _logger.LogWarning(ex,
+                "Primary audit writer threw; routing EventId {EventId} to drop-oldest ring.",
+                evt.EventId);
+            _ring.TryEnqueue(evt);
+            return;
+        }
+
+        // Primary succeeded — opportunistically drain anything that piled up
+        // in the ring during the outage. Best-effort: a failure during the
+        // drain re-enqueues the popped event and is logged; the next
+        // successful write will retry. Drain order in the audit log is
+        // therefore: <triggering event>, <backlog FIFO>.
+        if (_ring.Count > 0)
+        {
+            await TryDrainRingAsync(ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private async Task TryDrainRingAsync(CancellationToken ct)
+    {
+        // Serialise drains so two concurrent recoveries don't double-replay.
+        if (!await _drainGate.WaitAsync(0, ct).ConfigureAwait(false))
+        {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        try
+        {
+            // Pull only what is currently buffered; do NOT wait for new events.
+            // We iterate with a snapshot of Count so we never starve under
+            // concurrent enqueues.
+            var pending = _ring.Count;
+            for (var i = 0; i < pending; i++)
+            {
+                if (!_ring.TryDequeue(out var queued))
+                {
+                    break;
+                }
+
+                try
+                {
+                    await _primary.WriteAsync(queued, ct).ConfigureAwait(false);
+                }
+                catch (Exception ex)
+                {
+                    // Primary fell over again. Put the event back at the head
+                    // of the queue is impossible with Channel<T>; route to the
+                    // tail (drop-oldest preserves the most-recent picture).
+                    _failureCounter.Increment();
+                    _logger.LogWarning(ex,
+                        "Ring drain re-throw on EventId {EventId}; re-enqueuing.",
+                        queued.EventId);
+                    _ring.TryEnqueue(queued);
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        finally
+        {
+            _drainGate.Release();
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/ScadaLink.AuditLog/Site/IAuditWriteFailureCounter.cs b/src/ScadaLink.AuditLog/Site/IAuditWriteFailureCounter.cs
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+++ b/src/ScadaLink.AuditLog/Site/IAuditWriteFailureCounter.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+namespace ScadaLink.AuditLog.Site;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Lightweight counter sink invoked by <see cref="FallbackAuditWriter"/> every
+/// time the primary <see cref="SqliteAuditWriter"/> throws on an audit write.
+/// Bundle G (M2-T11) implements this as a thread-safe Interlocked counter
+/// bridged into the Site Health Monitoring report payload as
+/// <c>SiteAuditWriteFailures</c>.
+/// </summary>
+public interface IAuditWriteFailureCounter
+{
+    /// <summary>Increment the audit-write failure counter by one.</summary>
+    void Increment();
+}
diff --git a/src/ScadaLink.AuditLog/Site/RingBufferFallback.cs b/src/ScadaLink.AuditLog/Site/RingBufferFallback.cs
index 932ae7e..cf38dcd 100644
--- a/src/ScadaLink.AuditLog/Site/RingBufferFallback.cs
+++ b/src/ScadaLink.AuditLog/Site/RingBufferFallback.cs
@@ -100,6 +100,13 @@ public sealed class RingBufferFallback
         }
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Non-blocking single-item dequeue used by the
+    /// <see cref="FallbackAuditWriter"/> recovery path. Returns
+    /// <see langword="false"/> when the ring is empty.
+    /// </summary>
+    public bool TryDequeue(out AuditEvent evt) => _channel.Reader.TryRead(out evt!);
+
     /// <summary>
     /// Mark the ring as no-more-writes. <see cref="DrainAsync"/> will yield the
     /// remaining events and then complete.
diff --git a/tests/ScadaLink.AuditLog.Tests/Site/FallbackAuditWriterTests.cs b/tests/ScadaLink.AuditLog.Tests/Site/FallbackAuditWriterTests.cs
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+++ b/tests/ScadaLink.AuditLog.Tests/Site/FallbackAuditWriterTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions;
+using NSubstitute;
+using ScadaLink.AuditLog.Site;
+using ScadaLink.Commons.Entities.Audit;
+using ScadaLink.Commons.Interfaces.Services;
+using ScadaLink.Commons.Types.Enums;
+
+namespace ScadaLink.AuditLog.Tests.Site;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Bundle B (M2-T4) tests for <see cref="FallbackAuditWriter"/> — composes the
+/// primary <see cref="SqliteAuditWriter"/>, the drop-oldest
+/// <see cref="RingBufferFallback"/>, and an
+/// <see cref="IAuditWriteFailureCounter"/> health counter.
+/// </summary>
+public class FallbackAuditWriterTests
+{
+    private static AuditEvent NewEvent(string? target = null) => new()
+    {
+        EventId = Guid.NewGuid(),
+        OccurredAtUtc = DateTime.UtcNow,
+        Channel = AuditChannel.ApiOutbound,
+        Kind = AuditKind.ApiCall,
+        Status = AuditStatus.Delivered,
+        Target = target,
+        PayloadTruncated = false,
+        ForwardState = AuditForwardState.Pending,
+    };
+
+    /// <summary>Flip-switch primary writer mock.</summary>
+    private sealed class FlipSwitchPrimary : IAuditWriter
+    {
+        public bool FailNext { get; set; }
+        public List<AuditEvent> Written { get; } = new();
+
+        public Task WriteAsync(AuditEvent evt, CancellationToken ct = default)
+        {
+            if (FailNext)
+            {
+                return Task.FromException(new InvalidOperationException("primary down"));
+            }
+            Written.Add(evt);
+            return Task.CompletedTask;
+        }
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task WriteAsync_PrimaryThrows_EventLandsInRing_CallReturnsSuccess()
+    {
+        var primary = new FlipSwitchPrimary { FailNext = true };
+        var ring = new RingBufferFallback(capacity: 16);
+        var counter = Substitute.For<IAuditWriteFailureCounter>();
+
+        var fallback = new FallbackAuditWriter(primary, ring, counter, NullLogger<FallbackAuditWriter>.Instance);
+
+        var evt = NewEvent("doomed");
+        // Must NOT throw — audit failures are always swallowed at this layer.
+        await fallback.WriteAsync(evt);
+
+        Assert.Equal(1, ring.Count);
+        counter.Received(1).Increment();
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task WriteAsync_PrimaryRecovers_RingDrains_InFIFOOrder_OnNextWrite()
+    {
+        var primary = new FlipSwitchPrimary { FailNext = true };
+        var ring = new RingBufferFallback(capacity: 16);
+        var counter = Substitute.For<IAuditWriteFailureCounter>();
+
+        var fallback = new FallbackAuditWriter(primary, ring, counter, NullLogger<FallbackAuditWriter>.Instance);
+
+        var failed = new[] { NewEvent("a"), NewEvent("b"), NewEvent("c") };
+        foreach (var e in failed)
+        {
+            await fallback.WriteAsync(e);
+        }
+
+        Assert.Equal(3, ring.Count);
+
+        // Primary recovers; the very next successful write should drain the
+        // ring in FIFO order through the primary.
+        primary.FailNext = false;
+        var trigger = NewEvent("trigger");
+        await fallback.WriteAsync(trigger);
+
+        Assert.Equal(0, ring.Count);
+        // Order: the triggering event reaches the primary first (that's the
+        // signal the primary has recovered), then the backlog drains in FIFO
+        // submission order behind it.
+        Assert.Equal(4, primary.Written.Count);
+        Assert.Equal("trigger", primary.Written[0].Target);
+        Assert.Equal("a", primary.Written[1].Target);
+        Assert.Equal("b", primary.Written[2].Target);
+        Assert.Equal("c", primary.Written[3].Target);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task WriteAsync_PrimaryAlwaysSucceeds_Ring_StaysEmpty()
+    {
+        var primary = new FlipSwitchPrimary();
+        var ring = new RingBufferFallback(capacity: 16);
+        var counter = Substitute.For<IAuditWriteFailureCounter>();
+
+        var fallback = new FallbackAuditWriter(primary, ring, counter, NullLogger<FallbackAuditWriter>.Instance);
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
+        {
+            await fallback.WriteAsync(NewEvent());
+        }
+
+        Assert.Equal(0, ring.Count);
+        Assert.Equal(10, primary.Written.Count);
+        counter.DidNotReceive().Increment();
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task WriteAsync_FailureCounter_Incremented_Per_PrimaryFailure()
+    {
+        var primary = new FlipSwitchPrimary { FailNext = true };
+        var ring = new RingBufferFallback(capacity: 16);
+        var counter = Substitute.For<IAuditWriteFailureCounter>();
+
+        var fallback = new FallbackAuditWriter(primary, ring, counter, NullLogger<FallbackAuditWriter>.Instance);
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
+        {
+            await fallback.WriteAsync(NewEvent());
+        }
+
+        counter.Received(5).Increment();
+    }
+}