Downloading SQL Audit Logs

Procedure

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Databases > Relational Database Service.
3. On the Instances page, click the target DB instance.
4. In the navigation pane on the left, choose SQL Audits.
5. On the displayed page, select a time range in the upper right corner, select SQL audit logs to be downloaded in the list, and click Download above the list to download SQL audit logs in batches.

   Alternatively, select an audit log and click Download in the Operation column to download an individual SQL audit log.

6. The following figure shows the SQL audit log content. For field descriptions, see Table 1.
   Figure 1 RDS for PostgreSQL audit logs
   

   Table 1 Audit log field description

   Field	Description
   AUDIT:	Fixed prefix, which identifies an audit record.
   AUDIT_TYPE	Audit type. The value can be SESSION, OBJECT, or CLIENT_AUTHENTICATION.
   STATEMENT_ID	Unique statement ID for this session.
   SUBSTATEMENT_ID	ID of each substatement in the main statement.
   CLASS or AUTHENTICATION_RESULT	Operation type. CLASS: The value depends on the pgaudit.log options, and can be READ or ROLE. AUTHENTICATION_RESULT: The value can be SUCCESS or FAIL.
   PID	Process ID.
   STATEMENT_START_TIME	Statement start timestamp, in us.
   connection_status	Session status, which is usually the returned error code of a statement. If the statement is successfully executed, the value 0 is returned.
   APPLICATION_NAME	Application name, such as PSQL and JDBC.
   USER_NAME	Username for logging in to the database.
   DATABASE_NAME	Name of the database that was logged in to.
   REMOTE_HOST	IP address of the host used for login.
   COMMAND	Type of the SQL command, such as ALTER TABLE and SELECT.
   OBJECT_TYPE	Object type, such as TABLE, INDEX, and VIEW.
   OBJECT_NAME	Object name.
   STATEMENT	Content of the SQL statement executed at the backend.
   PARAMETER	Parameter value.