Certificate Manager audit logging

This document describes audit logging for Certificate Manager. Google Cloud services generate audit logs that record administrative and access activities within your Google Cloud resources. For more information about Cloud Audit Logs, see the following:

• Types of audit logs
• Audit log entry structure
• Storing and routing audit logs
• Cloud Logging pricing summary
• Enable Data Access audit logs

Service name

Certificate Manager audit logs use the service name certificatemanager.googleapis.com. Filter for this service:

    protoPayload.serviceName="certificatemanager.googleapis.com"
  

Methods by permission type

Each IAM permission has a type property, whose value is an enum that can be one of four values: ADMIN_READ, ADMIN_WRITE, DATA_READ, or DATA_WRITE. When you call a method, Certificate Manager generates an audit log whose category is dependent on the type property of the permission required to perform the method. Methods that require an IAM permission with the type property value of DATA_READ, DATA_WRITE, or ADMIN_READ generate Data Access audit logs. Methods that require an IAM permission with the type property value of ADMIN_WRITE generate Admin Activity audit logs.

API interface audit logs

For information about how and which permissions are evaluated for each method, see the Identity and Access Management documentation for Certificate Manager.

google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager

The following audit logs are associated with methods belonging to google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.

CreateCertificate

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.CreateCertificate
  
• Audit log type: Admin activity
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.certs.create - ADMIN_WRITE
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: Long-running operation
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.CreateCertificate"
  

CreateCertificateIssuanceConfig

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.CreateCertificateIssuanceConfig
  
• Audit log type: Admin activity
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.certissuanceconfigs.create - ADMIN_WRITE
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: Long-running operation
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.CreateCertificateIssuanceConfig"
  

CreateCertificateMap

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.CreateCertificateMap
  
• Audit log type: Admin activity
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.certmaps.create - ADMIN_WRITE
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: Long-running operation
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.CreateCertificateMap"
  

CreateCertificateMapEntry

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.CreateCertificateMapEntry
  
• Audit log type: Admin activity
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.certmapentries.create - ADMIN_WRITE
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: Long-running operation
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.CreateCertificateMapEntry"
  

CreateDnsAuthorization

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.CreateDnsAuthorization
  
• Audit log type: Admin activity
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.dnsauthorizations.create - ADMIN_WRITE
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: Long-running operation
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.CreateDnsAuthorization"
  

CreateTrustConfig

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.CreateTrustConfig
  
• Audit log type: Admin activity
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.trustconfigs.create - ADMIN_WRITE
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: Long-running operation
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.CreateTrustConfig"
  

DeleteCertificate

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.DeleteCertificate
  
• Audit log type: Admin activity
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.certs.delete - ADMIN_WRITE
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: Long-running operation
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.DeleteCertificate"
  

DeleteCertificateIssuanceConfig

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.DeleteCertificateIssuanceConfig
  
• Audit log type: Admin activity
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.certissuanceconfigs.delete - ADMIN_WRITE
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: Long-running operation
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.DeleteCertificateIssuanceConfig"
  

DeleteCertificateMap

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.DeleteCertificateMap
  
• Audit log type: Admin activity
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.certmaps.delete - ADMIN_WRITE
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: Long-running operation
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.DeleteCertificateMap"
  

DeleteCertificateMapEntry

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.DeleteCertificateMapEntry
  
• Audit log type: Admin activity
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.certmapentries.delete - ADMIN_WRITE
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: Long-running operation
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.DeleteCertificateMapEntry"
  

DeleteDnsAuthorization

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.DeleteDnsAuthorization
  
• Audit log type: Admin activity
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.dnsauthorizations.delete - ADMIN_WRITE
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: Long-running operation
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.DeleteDnsAuthorization"
  

DeleteTrustConfig

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.DeleteTrustConfig
  
• Audit log type: Admin activity
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.trustconfigs.delete - ADMIN_WRITE
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: Long-running operation
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.DeleteTrustConfig"
  

GetCertificate

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.GetCertificate
  
• Audit log type: Data access
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.certs.get - ADMIN_READ
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: No.
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.GetCertificate"
  

GetCertificateIssuanceConfig

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.GetCertificateIssuanceConfig
  
• Audit log type: Data access
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.certissuanceconfigs.get - ADMIN_READ
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: No.
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.GetCertificateIssuanceConfig"
  

GetCertificateMap

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.GetCertificateMap
  
• Audit log type: Data access
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.certmaps.get - ADMIN_READ
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: No.
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.GetCertificateMap"
  

GetCertificateMapEntry

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.GetCertificateMapEntry
  
• Audit log type: Data access
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.certmapentries.get - ADMIN_READ
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: No.
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.GetCertificateMapEntry"
  

GetDnsAuthorization

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.GetDnsAuthorization
  
• Audit log type: Data access
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.dnsauthorizations.get - ADMIN_READ
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: No.
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.GetDnsAuthorization"
  

GetTrustConfig

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.GetTrustConfig
  
• Audit log type: Data access
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.trustconfigs.get - ADMIN_READ
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: No.
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.GetTrustConfig"
  

ListCertificateIssuanceConfigs

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.ListCertificateIssuanceConfigs
  
• Audit log type: Data access
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.certissuanceconfigs.list - ADMIN_READ
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: No.
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.ListCertificateIssuanceConfigs"
  

ListCertificateMapEntries

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.ListCertificateMapEntries
  
• Audit log type: Data access
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.certmapentries.list - ADMIN_READ
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: No.
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.ListCertificateMapEntries"
  

ListCertificateMaps

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.ListCertificateMaps
  
• Audit log type: Data access
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.certmaps.list - ADMIN_READ
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: No.
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.ListCertificateMaps"
  

ListCertificates

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.ListCertificates
  
• Audit log type: Data access
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.certs.list - ADMIN_READ
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: No.
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.ListCertificates"
  

ListDnsAuthorizations

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.ListDnsAuthorizations
  
• Audit log type: Data access
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.dnsauthorizations.list - ADMIN_READ
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: No.
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.ListDnsAuthorizations"
  

ListTrustConfigs

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.ListTrustConfigs
  
• Audit log type: Data access
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.trustconfigs.list - ADMIN_READ
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: No.
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.ListTrustConfigs"
  

UpdateCertificate

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.UpdateCertificate
  
• Audit log type: Admin activity
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.certs.update - ADMIN_WRITE
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: Long-running operation
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.UpdateCertificate"
  

UpdateCertificateIssuanceConfig

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.UpdateCertificateIssuanceConfig
  
• Audit log type: Admin activity
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.certissuanceconfigs.update - ADMIN_WRITE
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: Long-running operation
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.UpdateCertificateIssuanceConfig"
  

UpdateCertificateMap

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.UpdateCertificateMap
  
• Audit log type: Admin activity
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.certmaps.update - ADMIN_WRITE
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: Long-running operation
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.UpdateCertificateMap"
  

UpdateCertificateMapEntry

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.UpdateCertificateMapEntry
  
• Audit log type: Admin activity
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.certmapentries.update - ADMIN_WRITE
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: Long-running operation
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.UpdateCertificateMapEntry"
  

UpdateDnsAuthorization

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.UpdateDnsAuthorization
  
• Audit log type: Admin activity
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.dnsauthorizations.update - ADMIN_WRITE
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: Long-running operation
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.UpdateDnsAuthorization"
  

UpdateTrustConfig

• Method: google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.UpdateTrustConfig
  
• Audit log type: Admin activity
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.trustconfigs.update - ADMIN_WRITE
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: Long-running operation
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.cloud.certificatemanager.v1.CertificateManager.UpdateTrustConfig"
  

google.longrunning.Operations

The following audit logs are associated with methods belonging to google.longrunning.Operations.

CancelOperation

• Method: google.longrunning.Operations.CancelOperation
  
• Audit log type: Admin activity
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.operations.cancel - ADMIN_WRITE
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: No.
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.longrunning.Operations.CancelOperation"
  

DeleteOperation

• Method: google.longrunning.Operations.DeleteOperation
  
• Audit log type: Admin activity
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.operations.delete - ADMIN_WRITE
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: No.
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.longrunning.Operations.DeleteOperation"
  

GetOperation

• Method: google.longrunning.Operations.GetOperation
  
• Audit log type: Data access
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.operations.get - ADMIN_READ
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: No.
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.longrunning.Operations.GetOperation"
  

ListOperations

• Method: google.longrunning.Operations.ListOperations
  
• Audit log type: Data access
  
• Permissions:
  • certificatemanager.operations.list - ADMIN_READ
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: No.
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="google.longrunning.Operations.ListOperations"
  

Methods that don't produce audit logs

A method might not produce audit logs for one or more of the following reasons:

• It is a high volume method involving signifcant log generation and storage costs.
• It has low auditing value.
• Another audit or platform log already provides method coverage.

The following methods don't produce audit logs:

• google.cloud.location.Locations.GetLocation
• google.cloud.location.Locations.ListLocations
• google.longrunning.Operations.WaitOperation

Available audit logs

The following types of audit logs are available for Public Certificate Authority:

• Admin Activity audit logs

  Includes "admin write" operations that write metadata or configuration information.

  You can't disable Admin Activity audit logs.

• Data Access audit logs

  Includes "admin read" operations that read metadata or configuration information.

  To receive Data Access audit logs, you must explicitly enable them.

For fuller descriptions of the audit log types, see Types of audit logs.

Audit log format

Audit log entries include the following objects:

• The log entry itself, which is an object of type LogEntry. Useful fields include the following:

  • The logName contains the resource ID and audit log type.
  • The resource contains the target of the audited operation.
  • The timeStamp contains the time of the audited operation.
  • The protoPayload contains the audited information.

• The audit logging data, which is an AuditLog object held in the protoPayload field of the log entry.

• Optional service-specific audit information, which is a service-specific object. For earlier integrations, this object is held in the serviceData field of the AuditLog object; later integrations use the metadata field.

For other fields in these objects, and how to interpret them, review Understand audit logs.

Log name

Cloud Audit Logs log names include resource identifiers indicating the Google Cloud project or other Google Cloud entity that owns the audit logs, and whether the log contains Admin Activity, Data Access, Policy Denied, or System Event audit logging data.

The following are the audit log names, including variables for the resource identifiers:

   projects/PROJECT_ID/logs/cloudaudit.googleapis.com%2Factivity
   projects/PROJECT_ID/logs/cloudaudit.googleapis.com%2Fdata_access
   projects/PROJECT_ID/logs/cloudaudit.googleapis.com%2Fsystem_event
   projects/PROJECT_ID/logs/cloudaudit.googleapis.com%2Fpolicy

   folders/FOLDER_ID/logs/cloudaudit.googleapis.com%2Factivity
   folders/FOLDER_ID/logs/cloudaudit.googleapis.com%2Fdata_access
   folders/FOLDER_ID/logs/cloudaudit.googleapis.com%2Fsystem_event
   folders/FOLDER_ID/logs/cloudaudit.googleapis.com%2Fpolicy

   billingAccounts/BILLING_ACCOUNT_ID/logs/cloudaudit.googleapis.com%2Factivity
   billingAccounts/BILLING_ACCOUNT_ID/logs/cloudaudit.googleapis.com%2Fdata_access
   billingAccounts/BILLING_ACCOUNT_ID/logs/cloudaudit.googleapis.com%2Fsystem_event
   billingAccounts/BILLING_ACCOUNT_ID/logs/cloudaudit.googleapis.com%2Fpolicy

   organizations/ORGANIZATION_ID/logs/cloudaudit.googleapis.com%2Factivity
   organizations/ORGANIZATION_ID/logs/cloudaudit.googleapis.com%2Fdata_access
   organizations/ORGANIZATION_ID/logs/cloudaudit.googleapis.com%2Fsystem_event
   organizations/ORGANIZATION_ID/logs/cloudaudit.googleapis.com%2Fpolicy

Enable audit logging

Admin Activity audit logs are always enabled; you can't disable them.

Data Access audit logs are disabled by default and aren't written unless explicitly enabled (the exception is Data Access audit logs for BigQuery, which can't be disabled).

For information about enabling some or all of your Data Access audit logs, see Enable Data Access audit logs.

View audit logs

You can query for all audit logs or you can query for logs by their audit log name. The audit log name includes the resource identifier of the Google Cloud project, folder, billing account, or organization for which you want to view audit logging information. Your queries can specify indexed LogEntry fields, and if you use the Log Analytics page, which supports SQL queries, then you can view your query results as a chart.

For more information about querying your logs, see the following pages:

• Build queries in the Logs Explorer.
• Query and view logs in Log Analytics.
• Sample queries for security insights.

You can view audit logs in Cloud Logging by using the Google Cloud console, the Google Cloud CLI, or the Logging API.

gcloud logging read "logName : projects/PROJECT_ID/logs/cloudaudit.googleapis.com" \
    --project=PROJECT_ID

gcloud logging read "logName : folders/FOLDER_ID/logs/cloudaudit.googleapis.com" \
    --folder=FOLDER_ID

gcloud logging read "logName : organizations/ORGANIZATION_ID/logs/cloudaudit.googleapis.com" \
    --organization=ORGANIZATION_ID

gcloud logging read "logName : billingAccounts/BILLING_ACCOUNT_ID/logs/cloudaudit.googleapis.com" \
    --billing-account=BILLING_ACCOUNT_ID