Re: Best Tool for PostgreSQL Auditing and Storing Audit Logs Separately

On 16/4/25 21:43, Ron Johnson wrote:

>
> You'll have to bring that up with the PgAudit maintainer. Note,
> though, that the purpose of PgAudit is not "recreate the database from
> audit logs"; it's "what Auditors care about". In my experience,
> auditors do not care about COMMIT and ROLLBACK statements.
In my experience auditors care a lot about a statement that happened
versus a statement that didn't happen.
>
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM Achilleas Mantzios
> <a(dot)mantzios(at)cloud(dot)gatewaynet(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On 16/4/25 15:36, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
>>
>> pgaudit is statement-level, not transaction-level; that's its
>> nature.  This is the same as log_statement.
> ok, but log_statement prints ROLLBACKs/COMMITs, but pgaudit not.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 5:10 AM Achilleas Mantzios - cloud
>> <a(dot)mantzios(at)cloud(dot)gatewaynet(dot)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(dot)postgres(at)gmail(dot)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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