CockroachDB Cloud captures audit logs when many types of events occur, such as when a cluster is created or when a user is added to or removed from an organization. Any user in an organization with a service account assigned the Org Administrator role can export these audit logs using the auditlogevents endpoint of the Cloud API.
This page provides some examples of exporting CockroachDB Cloud organization audit logs. For details about each parameter and its defaults, refer to the API specification for the auditlogevents endpoint.
Export audit logs in ascending order
This example requests audit logs without defining the starting timestamp, sort order, or limit.
curl --request GET \
--url 'https://cockroachlabs.cloud/api/v1/auditlogevents' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer {secret_key}' \
--header 'Cc-Version: {api_version}'
By default, the earliest 200 audit logs for your CockroachDB Cloud organization are returned in ascending order, starting from when the organization was created. If more records are available, the response will include the field next_starting_from with a timestamp. To export the next batch of entries, send a second request and set starting_from to the value of next_starting_from.
curl --request GET \
--url 'https://cockroachlabs.cloud/api/v1/auditlogevents?starting_from=2022-10-09T02:40:35.054818Z' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer {secret_key}' \
--header 'Cc-Version: {api_version}'
Export audit logs in descending order
This example requests the 300 most recent audit logs, starting from the current timestamp.
curl --request GET \
--url 'https://cockroachlabs.cloud/api/v1/auditlogevents?sort_order=DESC&limit=300' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer {secret_key}' \
--header 'Cc-Version: {api_version}'
To request the next batch of entries in the same direction, send a second request with the same values for sort_order and limit and set starting_from to the value of next_starting_from. When there are no more results to fetch (because you have reached when your CockroachDB Cloud organization was created), no next_starting_from field is returned.
Events adjacent to a specific timestamp
This example shows how to retrieve the 200 events on each side of a given timestamp by invoking the API twice, with the same timestamp and a different sort order for each request. The sort order determines whether the specified timestamp is at the beginning or end of the list. These examples use the default value for limit.
First, retrieve roughly 200 entries for the specified timestamp and later.
curl --request GET \
--url 'https://cockroachlabs.cloud/api/v1/auditlogevents?starting_from=2022-10-09T02:40:00.262143Z&sort_order=ASC' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer {secret_key}' \
--header 'Cc-Version: {api_version}'
Next, retrieve roughly 200 less recent entries for the specified timestamp and earlier.
curl --request GET \
--url 'https://cockroachlabs.cloud/api/v1/auditlogevents?starting_from=2022-10-09T02:40:00.262143Z&sort_order=DESC' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer {secret_key}' \
--header 'Cc-Version: {api_version}'
All entries for the timestamp itself are included in both sets of results. Duplicated entries have the same id.
What's next?
- Learn more about the Cloud API
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