Re: Audit Role Connections - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter J. Holzer
Subject Re: Audit Role Connections
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Msg-id 20200529192516.GA31322@hjp.at
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In response to Audit Role Connections  (Chris Morris <chris@mysteryscience.com>)
Responses Re: Audit Role Connections  (Chris Morris <chris@mysteryscience.com>)
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On 2020-05-29 12:42:47 -0500, Chris Morris wrote:
> We're using Heroku's PG,
[...]
> Other than polling pg_stat_activity (which isn't 100% accurate depending on
> timing), is there a good way to audit connections? To detect which roles are
> being used for connections?

Do you have access to the log files?

If you log_connections is on, you get messages like these:


2020-05-29 21:00:02 CEST [27995]: [2-1] user=w*****,db=wds,pid=27995 LOG:  connection authorized: user=w*****
database=wds
2020-05-29 21:00:18 CEST [27995]: [9-1] user=w*****,db=wds,pid=27995 LOG:  disconnection: session time: 0:00:15.979
user=w*****database=wds host=[local] 
2020-05-29 21:07:14 CEST [7481]: [2-1] user=u*****,db=wds,pid=7481 LOG:  connection authorized: user=u*****
database=wds
2020-05-29 21:07:14 CEST [7481]: [7-1] user=u*****,db=wds,pid=7481 LOG:  disconnection: session time: 0:00:00.016
user=u*****database=wds host=[local] 
2020-05-29 21:10:56 CEST [13918]: [2-1] user=m*******,db=wds,pid=13918 LOG:  connection authorized: user=m*******
database=wdsSSL enabled (protocol=TLSv1.2, cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384, bits=256, compression=off) 
2020-05-29 21:10:56 CEST [13918]: [11-1] user=m*******,db=wds,pid=13918 LOG:  disconnection: session time: 0:00:00.117
user=m*******database=wds host=143.130.**.** port=54037 

(user names and IP addresses censored for privacy reasons)

    hp

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