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2.2 Configure Sinks for All Log Entries (Automated)​

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Description​

Best practices recommend creating a sink to export copies of all the log entries. This can help aggregate logs from multiple projects and export them to a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM).

Rationale​

Log entries are held in Cloud Logging. To aggregate logs, export them to a SIEM. To keep them longer, it is recommended to set up a log sink. Exporting involves writing a filter that selects the log entries to export, and choosing a destination in Cloud Storage, BigQuery, or Cloud Pub/Sub. The filter and destination are held in an object called a sink. To ensure all log entries are exported to sinks, ensure that there is no filter configured for a sink. Sinks can be created in projects, organizations, folders, and billing accounts.

Impact​

There are no costs or limitations in Cloud Logging for exporting logs, but the export destinations charge for storing or transmitting the log data.

Audit​

From Console:

  1. Go to Logs Router by visiting https://console.cloud.google.com/logs/router.

  2. For every sink, click the 3-dot button for Menu options and select View sink details.

  3. Ensure there is at least one sink with an empty Inclusion filter.

  4. Additionally, ensure that the resource configured as Destination exists.

From Command Line:

  1. Ensure that a sink with an empty filter exists. List the sinks for the project, folder or organization. If sinks are configured at a folder or organization level, they do not need to be configured for each project:
gcloud logging sinks list --folder=FOLDER_ID | --organization=ORGANIZATION_ID | --project=PROJECT_ID

The output should list at least one sink with an empty filter.

  1. Additionally, ensure that the resource configured as Destination exists.

See https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/beta/logging/sinks/list for more information.

Remediation​

From Console:

  1. Go to Logs Router by visiting https://console.cloud.google.com/logs/router.

  2. Click the arrow symbol with Create Sink text.

  3. Fill out the fields for Sink details.

  4. Choose Cloud Logging bucket in the Select sink destination drop down menu.

  5. Choose a log bucket in the next drop down menu.

  6. If an inclusion filter is not provided for this sink, the destination provided previously receives all ingested logs. This may result in higher than expected resource usage.

  7. Click Create Sink.

For more information, see https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/export/configure_export_v2#dest-create.

From Command Line:

To create a sink to export all log entries in a Google Cloud Storage bucket:

gcloud logging sinks create <sink-name> storage.googleapis.com/DESTINATION_BUCKET_NAME

You can create sinks for a folder or organization, which includes all projects.

gcloud logging sinks create <sink-name> storage.googleapis.com/DESTINATION_BUCKET_NAME --include-children --folder=FOLDER_ID | --organization=ORGANIZATION_ID
note

  1. A sink created by the preceding command exports logs in storage buckets. However, you can configure sinks to export logs into BigQuery, or Cloud Pub/Sub, or Custom Destination.

  2. While creating a sink, the sink option --log-filter is not used to ensure the sink exports all log entries.

  3. You can create a sink can at a folder or organization level that collects the logs of all the projects underneath bypassing the option --include-children in the gcloud command.

References​

https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/reference/tools/gcloud-logging
https://cloud.google.com/logging/quotas
https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/routing/overview
https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/export/using_exported_logs
https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/export/configure_export_v2
https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/export/aggregated_exports
https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/beta/logging/sinks/list

Additional Information​

Command-Line Audit and Remediation uses the sink destination of type Cloud Storage Bucket. However, you can configure the destination to Cloud Storage Bucket or BigQuery or Cloud Pub\Sub or Custom Destination. Command Line Interface commands would change accordingly.

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