Management Console Audit Logs

Enabling CTS

A tracker will be automatically created after CTS is enabled. All traces recorded by CTS are associated with a tracker. Currently, only one tracker can be created for each account.

  1. Log in to the management console, choose Service List > Management & Governance > Cloud Trace Service. The CTS management console is displayed.
  2. In the navigation tree on the left, choose Cloud Trace Service > Tracker.
  3. Enable CTS.

    If you are a first-time CTS user and do not have any trackers in the tracker list, enable CTS first. For details, see "Getting Started > Enabling CTS" in the Cloud Trace Service User Guide.

    If you have enabled CTS, the system has automatically created a management tracker. Only one management tracker can be created and it cannot be deleted. You can also manually create a data tracker. For details, see Managing Trackers > Creating a Tracker in the Cloud Trace Service User Guide.

Disabling the Audit Log Function

If you want to disable the audit log function, disable the tracker in CTS.

  1. Log in to the management console, choose Service List > Management & Governance > Cloud Trace Service. The CTS management console is displayed.
  2. Disable the audit log function by disabling the tracker. To enable the audit log function again, you only need to enable the tracker.

    For details about how to enable or disable a tracker, see "Tracker Management > Disabling or Enabling a Tracker" in the Cloud Trace Service User Guide.

Key Operations

With CTS, you can record operations associated with GaussDB(DWS) for later query, audit, and backtrack operations.

The creation and deletion of automatic snapshots are not performed by users, therefore not recorded in audit logs.

Table 1 GaussDB(DWS) operations that can be recorded by CTS

Operation

Resource

Event Name

Creating/Restoring a cluster

cluster

createCluster

Deleting a cluster

cluster

deleteCluster

Scaling out a cluster

cluster

resizeCluster

Restarting a cluster

cluster

restartCluster

Creating a snapshot

backup

createBackup

Deleting a snapshot

backup

deleteBackup

Setting security parameters

configurations

updateConfigurations

Creating an MRS data source

dataSource

createExtDataSource

Deleting an MRS data source

dataSource

deleteExtDataSource

Updating an MRS data source

dataSource

updateExtDataSource

Viewing Traces

  1. Log in to the management console, choose Service List > Management & Governance > Cloud Trace Service. The CTS management console is displayed.
  2. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Trace List.
  3. In the upper right corner of the trace list, click Filter to set the search criteria.

    The following filters are available:

    • Trace Source, Resource Type, and Search By
      • Trace Source: Select GaussDB(DWS).
      • Resource Type: Select All resource types or specify a resource type.
      • Search By: Select All filters or any of the following options:
        • Trace name: If you select this option, you also need to select a specific trace name.
        • Resource ID: If you select this option, you also need to select or enter a specific resource ID.
        • Resource name: If you select this option, you also need to select or enter a specific resource name.
    • Operator: Select a specific operator (at user level rather than tenant level).
    • Trace Status: Available options include All trace statuses, normal, warning, and incident. You can only select one of them.
    • Start Date and End Date: You can specify the time period to query traces.
      Figure 1 Querying traces

  4. Click Query.
  5. Click on the left of the trace to be queried to extend its details.

    Figure 2 Traces

  6. Locate the row containing the target trace and click View Trace in the Operation column.

    Figure 3 Viewing a trace

    For details about the key fields in the CTS trace structure, see "Trace References > Trace Structure" and "Trace References > Example Traces" in the Cloud Trace Service User Guide.

Parent topic: Audit Logs