Audit Switch

audit_enabled

Parameter description: Specifies whether to enable or disable the audit process. After the audit process is enabled, the auditing information written by the background process can be read from the pipe and written into audit files.

Type: SIGHUP

Value range: Boolean

  • on indicates that the auditing function is enabled.

  • off indicates that the auditing function is disabled.

Default value: on

audit_space_limit

Parameter description: Specifies the total disk space occupied by audit files.

Type: SIGHUP

Value range: an integer ranging from 1024 KB to 1024 GB. The unit is KB.

Default value: 1GB

audit_object_name_format

Parameter description: Specifies the format of the object name displayed in the object_name field of audit logs.

Type: USERSET

Value range: enumerated values

  • single indicates that the object_name field displays a single object name, which is the name of the target object.

  • all indicates that the object_name field displays multiple object names.

Default value: single

Note

If the default value is set to all, multiple object names will be displayed for SELECT, DELETE, UPDATE, INSERT, MERGE, CREATE TABLE AS and CREATE VIEW AS.

audit_object_details

Parameter description: whether to record the object_details field in audit logs. This field indicates the table name, column name, and column type in the audit statement. This parameter is supported only by clusters of version 8.2.1.100 or later.

Type: USERSET

Value range: Boolean

  • on indicates that the object_details field is recorded during the audit.

  • off indicates that the object_details field is not recorded during the audit.

Default value: off

Note

  • If this parameter is set to on, the table name, column name, and column type in the statement will be audited, which may affect the performance. So, exercise caution when setting this parameter to on.

  • If this parameter is set to on, the object_details field records the following statements: SELECT, DELETE, UPDATE, INSERT, MERGE, CREATE TABLE AS SELECT, GRANT, and DECLARE CURSOR. GRANT statements that fail to be executed are not recorded.