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title: "DocDB does not have audit logs enabled"
canonical: "https://kb.cynergy.app/space/MD/1210122241/DocDB%20does%20not%20have%20audit%20logs%20enabled"
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# Description

Enabling audit logs for Amazon DocumentDB (DocDB) allows you to monitor activities within the DocDB cluster, recording details such as database access and types of operations performed. These logs capture user and application activity, providing visibility into database interactions for better security and compliance tracking.

# Fix - Build time

## Terraform

- **Resource**: aws_docdb_cluster_parameter_group
- **Argument**: parameter.audit_logs

```go aws_docdb_cluster_parameter_group.test.tf resource "aws_docdb_cluster_parameter_group" "test" { ... + parameter { + name = "audit_logs" + value = "enabled" } }

```

## CloudFormation

- **Resource**: AWS::DocDB::DBClusterParameterGroup
- **Argument**:  Parameters.audit_logs

```yaml
Resources:
    DocDBParameterGroupEnabled:
        Type: "AWS::DocDB::DBClusterParameterGroup"
        Properties:
        ...
+       Parameters: 
+       audit_logs: "enabled"
            ...
```