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Medium DMS · regional

DMS replication tasks for the target database should have logging enabled

Confirms that DMS replication tasks have logging enabled at LOGGER_SEVERITY_DEFAULT or higher for TARGET_APPLY and TARGET_LOAD operations.

service
DMS
severity
Medium
scope
evaluated in every region

How to fix it

Enable logging for DMS replication tasks with appropriate severity levels for target database operations.

  1. Navigate to the AWS DMS console
  2. Go to the Database migration tasks section
  3. Select the replication task that needs logging
  4. Modify the task settings
  5. In the 'Logging' section, enable 'Target apply logging' and 'Target load logging'
  6. Set the severity level to at least 'LOGGER_SEVERITY_DEFAULT' or higher
  7. Configure CloudWatch Logs destination if needed
  8. Save the configuration changes
  9. Verify that logging is now enabled for the target database operations

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