Re: Best Tool for PostgreSQL Auditing and Storing Audit Logs Separately - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ron Johnson
Subject Re: Best Tool for PostgreSQL Auditing and Storing Audit Logs Separately
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Msg-id CANzqJaBCYU84zhZKRzk6Ec-e1L+ZhJW=kg8P0PKNNKh8aK4ZkQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Best Tool for PostgreSQL Auditing and Storing Audit Logs Separately  (Achilleas Mantzios - cloud <a.mantzios@cloud.gatewaynet.com>)
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pgaudit is statement-level, not transaction-level; that's its nature.  This is the same as log_statement.

On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 5:10 AM Achilleas Mantzios - cloud <a.mantzios@cloud.gatewaynet.com> wrote:

On 4/15/25 12:14, KENAN ÇİFTÇİ wrote:

Hi,

You can use pgaudit and pgauditlogtofile extension (https://github.com/fmbiete/pgauditlogtofile) together to write audit logs in a separate file.
One issue we have with pgaudit is that it prints AUDIT records even if the xaction gets rollbacked, how do you alleviate that ?

yours,

Kenan Çiftçi

On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM vijay patil <vijay.postgres@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

We are exploring auditing solutions for our PostgreSQL database and are considering using pgaudit for this purpose. However, we have a few questions:

  1. What is the best tool for auditing PostgreSQL databases?

    • We are specifically looking for a solution that offers detailed auditing capabilities and is compatible with our setup.

  2. Can we store the audit information separately from PostgreSQL logs if we decide to use pgaudit?

    • We would prefer to keep the audit logs in a separate file or location for easier management and analysis.


We appreciate any help or suggestions!


Thanks

Vijay



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