Event Format in the Talend Administration Center audit logs
The audit logs are sent following audit specification:
public interface CustomClass {
MDC.put(EventFields.USER, "user0");
MDC.put(EventFields.OPERATION, "create user");
MDC.put(EventFields.RESOURCE, "user");
MDC.put(EventFields.RESULT, "success");
...
}The audit logs provide the following information:
- Who: user login
If the change comes from an Identity Provider, that information is also added to the event.
- When: timestamps in ISO format (UTC)
- Where: application name and host name/IP address
- What: resource, operation, result
A sample log in Talend LogServer is
shown
below:
{
"_index": "talendaudit-2018.03.19",
"_type": "doc",
"_id": "y8K1PWIB8HccQKv0hq2o",
"_version": 1,
"_score": null,
"_source": {
"application": "TAC",
"customInfo": {
"itemDetail": "Login TAC success - [admin@company.com]",
"itemUser": "admin@company.com",
"itemCustomer": "TALEND"
},
"service": "",
"esIndex": "talendaudit-2018.03.19",
"instance": "DefaultInstance",
"logTimestamp": "2018-03-19T10:01:53.845Z",
"logSource": {
"host.name": "Yang2016-PC",
"logger.name": "audit.security",
"host.address": "172.24.38.1"
},
"@timestamp": "2018-03-19T10:02:09.285Z",
"category": "security",
"threadName": "qtp399653041-112",
"operation": "login",
"agentTimestamp": "2018-03-19T10:01:53.860Z",
"user": "",
"message": "User admin@company.com login success",
"headers": {
"http_connection": "keep-alive",
"http_host": "192.168.30.202:8057",
"request_uri": "/",
"http_version": "HTTP/1.1",
"http_cache_control": "no-cache",
"content_length": "643",
"http_user_agent": "Java/1.8.0_60",
"http_accept": "text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2",
"request_method": "POST",
"http_pragma": "no-cache",
"content_type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
"request_path": "/"
},
"resource": "user",
"eventid": "59f9ff26-05a6-4328-826c-c665724046d9",
"result": "success",
"priority": "INFO",
"@version": 1,
"type": "Audit",
"audit": "true"
},
"fields": {
"@timestamp": [
"2018-03-19T10:02:09.285Z"
]
},
"sort": [
1521453729285
]
}This log shows the following properties:
- "application": "TAC"
- "instance": "DefaultInstance"
- "user": ""
- "operation": "login"
- "resource": "user"
- "result": "success"
- "message": "User admin@company.com login success"
- "customInfo": "itemDetail"