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Medium DocumentDB · regional

Amazon DocumentDB clusters should publish audit logs to CloudWatch Logs

Verifies that DocumentDB clusters publish audit logs to CloudWatch Logs. Audit logging captures authentication attempts, collection drops, index creation, and other significant events.

service
DocumentDB
severity
Medium
scope
evaluated in every region

How to fix it

Enable audit logging for your Amazon DocumentDB cluster by configuring CloudWatch Logs export for audit logs.

  1. Open the Amazon DocumentDB console.
  2. Choose 'Clusters' from the navigation pane.
  3. Select the cluster you want to modify.
  4. Choose 'Modify'.
  5. In the 'Log exports' section, select 'audit' to enable audit logs.
  6. Choose 'Continue' and then 'Modify cluster'.

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