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RDS for MariaDB DB instances should publish logs to CloudWatch Logs

Verifies that RDS for MariaDB DB instances publish the error log to CloudWatch Logs, where it is kept durably for audits and for diagnosing availability issues.

service
RDS
severity
Medium
scope
evaluated in every region

How to fix it

In the console

RDS → Databases → the MariaDB DB instance → Modify → Log exports

With the AWS CLI

aws rds modify-db-instance --db-instance-identifier <db-instance-identifier> --cloudwatch-logs-export-configuration '{"EnableLogTypes":["error"]}' --region <region>

With Terraform

resource "aws_db_instance" "this" {
  instance_class                  = var.instance_class
  enabled_cloudwatch_logs_exports = ["error"]
}

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