Audit Logging

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Introduction
Feast provides audit logging functionality in order to debug problems and to trace the lineage of events.
Audit Log Types
Audit Logs produced by Feast come in three favors:
Audit Log Type
Description
Message Audit Log
Logs service calls that can be used to track Feast request handling. Currently only gRPC request/response is supported. Enabling Message Audit Logs can be resource intensive and significantly increase latency, as such is not recommended on Online Serving.
Transition Audit Log
Logs transitions in status in resources managed by Feast (ie an Ingestion Job becoming RUNNING).
Action Audit Log
Logs actions performed on a specific resource managed by Feast (ie an Ingestion Job is aborted).
Configuration
Audit Log Type
Description
Message Audit Log
Enabled when both feast.logging.audit.enabled and feast.logging.audit.messageLogging.enabled is set to true
Transition Audit Log
Enabled when feast.logging.audit.enabled is set to true
Action Audit Log
Enabled when feast.logging.audit.enabled is set to true
JSON Format
Audit Logs produced by Feast are written to the console similar to normal logs but in a structured, machine parsable JSON. Example of a Message Audit Log JSON entry produced:
{
  "message": {
    "logType": "FeastAuditLogEntry",
    "kind": "MESSAGE",
    "statusCode": "OK",
    "request": {
      "filter": {
        "project": "dummy",
      }
    },
    "application": "Feast",
    "response": {},
    "method": "ListFeatureTables",
    "identity": "105960238928959148073",
    "service": "CoreService",
    "component": "feast-core",
    "id": "45329ea9-0d48-46c5-b659-4604f6193711",
    "version": "0.8.0"
  },
  "hostname": "feast.core"
  "timestamp": "2020-10-20T04:45:24Z",
  "severity": "INFO",
}
Log Entry Schema
Fields common to all Audit Log Types:
Field
Description
logType
Log Type. Always set to FeastAuditLogEntry. Useful for filtering out Feast audit logs.
application
Application. Always set to Feast.
component
Feast Component producing the Audit Log. Set to feast-core for Feast Core and feast-serving for Feast Serving. Use to filtering out Audit Logs by component.
version
Version of Feast producing this Audit Log. Use to filtering out Audit Logs by version.
Fields in Message Audit Log Type
Field
Description
id
Generated UUID that uniquely identifies the service call.
service
Name of the Service that handled the service call.
method
Name of the Method that handled the service call. Useful for filtering Audit Logs by method (ie ApplyFeatureTable calls)
request
Full request submitted by client in the service call as JSON.
response
Full response returned to client by the service after handling the service call as JSON.
identity
Identity of the client making the service call as an user Id. Only set when Authentication is enabled.
statusCode
The status code returned by the service handling the service call (ie OK if service call handled without error).
Fields in Action Audit Log Type
Field
Description
action
Name of the action taken on the resource.
resource.type
Type of resource of which the action was taken on (i.e FeatureTable)
resource.id
Identifier specifying the specific resource of which the action was taken on.
Fields in Transition Audit Log Type
Field
Description
status
The new status that the resource transitioned to
resource.type
Type of resource of which the transition occurred (i.e FeatureTable)
resource.id
Identifier specifying the specific resource of which the transition occurred.
Log Forwarder
Feast currently only supports forwarding Request/Response (Message Audit Log Type) logs to an external fluentD service with feast.** Fluentd tag.
Request/Response Log Example
{
  "id": "45329ea9-0d48-46c5-b659-4604f6193711",
  "service": "CoreService"
  "status_code": "OK",
  "identity": "105960238928959148073",
  "method": "ListProjects",
  "request": {},
  "response": {
    "projects": [
      "default", "project1", "project2"
    ]
  }
  "release_name": 506.457.14.512
}
Configuration
The Fluentd Log Forwarder configured with the with the following configuration options in application.yml:
Settings
Description
feast.logging.audit.messageLogging.destination
fluentd
feast.logging.audit.messageLogging.fluentdHost
localhost
feast.logging.audit.messageLogging.fluentdPort
24224
When using Fluentd as the Log forwarder, a Feast release_name can be logged instead of the IP address (eg. IP of Kubernetes pod deployment), by setting an environment variable RELEASE_NAME when deploying Feast.

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Field	Description
`logType`	Log Type. Always set to `FeastAuditLogEntry`. Useful for filtering out Feast audit logs.
`application`	Application. Always set to `Feast`.
`component`	Feast Component producing the Audit Log. Set to `feast-core` for Feast Core and `feast-serving` for Feast Serving. Use to filtering out Audit Logs by component.
`version`	Version of Feast producing this Audit Log. Use to filtering out Audit Logs by version.

Field	Description
`id`	Generated UUID that uniquely identifies the service call.
`service`	Name of the Service that handled the service call.
`method`	Name of the Method that handled the service call. Useful for filtering Audit Logs by method (ie `ApplyFeatureTable` calls)
`request`	Full request submitted by client in the service call as JSON.
`response`	Full response returned to client by the service after handling the service call as JSON.
`identity`	Identity of the client making the service call as an user Id. Only set when Authentication is enabled.
`statusCode`	The status code returned by the service handling the service call (ie `OK` if service call handled without error).

Settings	Description
`feast.logging.audit.messageLogging.destination`	`fluentd`
`feast.logging.audit.messageLogging.fluentdHost`	`localhost`
`feast.logging.audit.messageLogging.fluentdPort`	`24224`

Audit Log Type	Description
Message Audit Log	Logs service calls that can be used to track Feast request handling. Currently only gRPC request/response is supported. Enabling Message Audit Logs can be resource intensive and significantly increase latency, as such is not recommended on Online Serving.
Transition Audit Log	Logs transitions in status in resources managed by Feast (ie an Ingestion Job becoming RUNNING).
Action Audit Log	Logs actions performed on a specific resource managed by Feast (ie an Ingestion Job is aborted).

Field	Description
`action`	Name of the action taken on the resource.
`resource.type`	Type of resource of which the action was taken on (i.e `FeatureTable`)
resource.id	Identifier specifying the specific resource of which the action was taken on.

Field	Description
`status`	The new status that the resource transitioned to
`resource.type`	Type of resource of which the transition occurred (i.e `FeatureTable`)
`resource.id`	Identifier specifying the specific resource of which the transition occurred.