Pipeline: 5.3.3 Ensure server parameter 'audit_log_enabled' is set to 'ON' for MySQL flexible Server

Description

Enable audit_log_enabled on MySQL flexible servers.

Enabling audit_log_enabled helps MySQL Database to log items such as connection attempts to the server, DDL/DML access, and more. Log data can be used to identify, troubleshoot, and repair configuration errors and suboptimal performance.

Remediation

From Azure Portal

Part 1 - Turn on audit logs

Login to Azure Portal using https://portal.azure.com.
Go to Azure Database for MySQL flexible servers.
For each database, under Settings, click Server parameters.
Set audit_log_enabled to ON.
Click Save.

Part 2 - Capture audit logs (diagnostic settings is for example only, send these logs to the appropriate data sink for your logging needs)

Under Monitoring, select Diagnostic settings.
Select + Add diagnostic setting.
Provide a diagnostic setting name.
Under Categories, select MySQL Audit Logs.
Specify destination details.
Click Save.

It may take up to 10 minutes for the logs to appear in the configured destination.

From Azure CLI

Use the below command to enable audit_log_enabled :

az mysql flexible-server parameter set --resource-group <resourceGroup> --server-name <serverName> --name audit_log_enabled --value on

From PowerShell

Use the below command to enable audit_log_enabled :

Update-AzMySqlFlexibleServerConfiguration -ResourceGroupName <resourceGroup> -ServerName <serverName> -Name audit_log_enabled -Value on

Default Value

audit_log_enabled is set to OFF by default.

Run the pipeline

To run this pipeline from your terminal:

flowpipe pipeline run azure_cis.pipeline.cis_v300_5_3_3

Use this pipeline

To call this pipeline from your pipeline, use a step:

step "pipeline" "step_name" {
  pipeline = azure_cis.pipeline.cis_v300_5_3_3  
}

Params

Name	Type	Required	Description	Default
database	connection.steampipe	Yes	Database connection string.	`connection.steampipe.default`
notifier	notifier	Yes	The name of the notifier to use for sending notification messages.	`notifier.default`
notification_level	string	Yes	The verbosity level of notification messages to send. Valid options are 'verbose', 'info', 'error'.	`info`
approvers	list(notifier)	Yes	List of notifiers to be used for obtaining action/approval decisions.	`notifier.default`

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