Configuring Audit Logs
API Portal provides a level of auditing that allows an API Portal Administrator to see the state of the API Portal and get information about events that occur.
Various events that can be audited are:
Login attempts
User Deletion
API lifecycle
Access token lifecycle
API Provider lifecycle
Purge logs
In addition to monitoring events through various audit logs the API Portal administrator can configure the following as required on a tenant basis:
Type of auditing events
Purging of different types of logs
Different event types and their respective list properties that have to be configured to enable or disable the auditing of these logs is listed in the following table.
Event Type | List Property Value |
Approvals | com.aris.umc.apiportal.useronboarding.approval.purge |
Request Access Token | com.aris.apiportal.eventType.requestaccesstoken.log.enabled |
Renew Access Token | com.aris.apiportal.eventType.renewaccesstoken.log.enabled |
Revoke Access Token | com.aris.apiportal.eventType.revokeaccesstoken.log.enabled |
Publish API | com.aris.apiportal.eventType.publish.log.enabled |
Republish API | com.aris.apiportal.eventType.republish.log.enabled |
Unpublish API | com.aris.apiportal.eventType.unpublish.log.enabled |
Purge Log | com.aris.apiportal.eventType.purge.log.enabled |
You can configure the Audit logs to enable or disable the required types of auditing events such as login events, API lifecycle events, access token lifecycle, user deletion, and purge logs. These are enabled by default.
You can configure audit logs by invoking the REST service.
Endpoint: http://<hostname>:<port>/abs/apirepository/configurations/<PropertyName>/
Supported HTTP methods:
GET - Display the current audit setting (enabled/disabled) for the given property.
POST - Modify the audit setting for the given property. Message body to be set to false (to disable logging).
For example, to disable the audit logging for the publish property type:
Endpoint: http://<hostname>:<port>/abs//apirepository/configurations/ com.aris.apiportal.eventType.publish.log.enabled/
HTTP Method: POST
Message body: false
For example, to enable the audit logging for the publish property type:
Endpoint: http://<hostname>:<port>/abs//apirepository/configurations/ com.aris.apiportal.eventType.publish.log.enabled/
HTTP Method: POST
Message body: true
For example, to get the status of the properties:
Endpoint URL: http://<hostname>:<port>/abs/apirepository/configurations/com.aris.apiportal.eventType.publish.log.enabled/
HTTP Method: GET
Response:
{
propName: "com.aris.apiportal.eventType.publish.log.enabled"
propValue: "true"
}
