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# AWS RDS Postgres Cluster does not have query logging enabled misconfiguration detected in code

## Rule Details

|                        |                                      |
| ---------------------- | ------------------------------------ |
| Cortex AppSec Rule ID  | APPSEC2\_AWS\_27                     |
| Category - Subcategory | Logging - Disabled or missing        |
| Provider               | AWS                                  |
| Severity               | LOW                                  |
| Framework              | Terraform, Terraform Plan            |
| Mapped CSPM/KSPM Rule  | 75534da4-6dfa-4d6e-b76b-e2d56fbe955a |

## Impact

This check ensures that you have enabled query logging set up for your PostgreSQL database instance. An instance needs to have a non-default parameter group and two parameters set - that of *log\_statement* and *log\_min\_duration\_statement*, these need to be set to *all* and *1* respectively to get sufficient logs. *Note* Setting querying logging can expose secrets (including passwords) from your queries, - restrict and encrypt to mitigate.

## How to Fix

You will need to have a resource aws\_db\_instance that refers to your aws\_db\_parameter\_group attribute: parameter\_group\_name.

With that in place the following parameters need to be set:

## For more details see the aws docs here: <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/USER\\_LogAccess.Concepts.PostgreSQL.html> \[source,go]

resource "aws\_rds\_cluster\_parameter\_group" "examplea" { name = "rds-cluster-pg" family = "aurora5.7" description = "RDS default cluster parameter group"

* parameter {
* name="log\_statement"
* value="all"
* }
* parameter {
* name="log\_min\_duration\_statement"
* value="1"
* } }

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