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# AWS Postgres RDS have Query Logging disabled misconfiguration detected in code

## Rule Details

|                        |                               |
| ---------------------- | ----------------------------- |
| Cortex AppSec Rule ID  | APPSEC2\_AWS\_30              |
| Category - Subcategory | Logging - Disabled or missing |
| Provider               | AWS                           |
| Severity               | LOW                           |
| Framework              | Terraform, Terraform Plan     |

## Impact

This check ensures that you have enabled query logging set up for your PostgreSQL database cluster. A cluster 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\_rds\_cluster\_parameter\_group that is referred to your aws\_rds\_cluster\_parameter\_group

attribute: db\_cluster\_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\_db\_parameter\_group" "examplea" { name = "rds-cluster-pg" family = "postgres10"

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

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