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Obtaining the Links for Downloading Audit Logs

Function

This API is used to obtain the links for downloading audit logs.

Authorization Information

Each account has all the permissions required to call all APIs, but IAM users must be assigned the required permissions.
  • If you are using role/policy-based authorization, see Permissions and Supported Actions for details on the required permissions.
  • If you are using identity policy-based authorization, the following identity policy-based permissions are required.

Action

Access Level

Resource Type (*: required)

Condition Key

Alias

Dependencies

rds:auditlog:download

read

instance

g:EnterpriseProjectId

g:ResourceTag/<tag-key>

-

-

Constraints

This API is available only to RDS for MySQL and RDS for PostgreSQL.

URI

  • URI format

    POST /v3/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/auditlog-links

  • Parameter description
    Table 1 Parameters

    Parameter

    Mandatory

    Description

    project_id

    Yes

    Definition

    Project ID of a tenant in a region.

    To obtain the value, see Obtaining a Project ID.

    Constraints

    N/A

    Range

    N/A

    Default Value

    N/A

    instance_id

    Yes

    Definition

    Instance ID.

    You can obtain the value of this parameter from id in Table 4 by calling the API for querying DB instances.

    Constraints

    N/A

    Range

    N/A

    Default Value

    N/A

Request

Table 2 Parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

ids

Yes

Array of strings

Definition

List of audit log IDs.

Constraints

A maximum of 50 audit log IDs are allowed in the list.

Range

You can obtain the value of this parameter from id in Table 3 by calling the API for obtaining audit logs.

Default Value

N/A

Example Request

Obtain the links for downloading audit logs. 
POST https://{endpoint}/v3/0483b6b16e954cb88930a360d2c4e663/instances/cee5265e1e5845649e354841234567dfin01/auditlog-links

{
	"ids": ["fa163e9970a3t11e9d834e122fdceb1d6br01", "fa163ea0e2bet11e9d8364943103c94c5br01"]
}

Response

  • Normal response
    Table 3 Parameters

    Parameter

    Type

    Description

    links

    Array of strings

    Definition

    Indicates the list of audit log download links. The validity period is 5 minutes.

    Range

    N/A
  • Example normal response 
    {
	"links": ["https://obs.domainname.com/rdsbucket.username.1/xxxxxx", "https://obs.domainname.com/rdsbucket.username.2/xxxxxx"]
}
  • Abnormal response

    For details, see Abnormal Response Results.

Status Code

Error Code

For details, see Error Codes.

Parent topic: Log Information Queries