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Using Console

To enable the “LOG_CONNECTIONS” parameter for PostgreSQL servers in Azure, please follow the below steps:
  1. Login to Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com/)
  2. Navigate to the PostgreSQL server for which you want to enable the parameter.
  3. In the left-hand menu, click on “Settings”.
  4. Under the “Settings” tab, click on the “Configuration” option.
  5. Under the “Parameters” tab, search for the “logging_collector” parameter.
  6. Set the value of “logging_collector” parameter to “on”.
  7. Search for the “log_connections” parameter.
  8. Set the value of “log_connections” parameter to “on”.
  9. Click on the “Save” button to save the changes.
Once you have followed these steps, the “LOG_CONNECTIONS” parameter will be enabled for your PostgreSQL server in Azure.

To enable the “LOG_CONNECTIONS” parameter for PostgreSQL servers in Azure using Azure CLI, follow these steps:
  1. Open the Azure CLI in your terminal or command prompt.
  2. Log in to your Azure account using the command:
  3. Once logged in, select the Azure subscription where your PostgreSQL server is located using the command:
  4. Next, retrieve the resource ID of your PostgreSQL server using the command:
    Replace <resource-group-name> with the name of the resource group where your PostgreSQL server is located, and <server-name> with the name of your PostgreSQL server.
  5. Once you have the resource ID, use the following command to enable the “LOG_CONNECTIONS” parameter:
    Replace <resource-group-name> with the name of the resource group where your PostgreSQL server is located, and <server-name> with the name of your PostgreSQL server.
  6. After executing the command, the “LOG_CONNECTIONS” parameter will be enabled for your PostgreSQL server. You can verify this by checking the server configuration using the command:
    Replace <resource-group-name> with the name of the resource group where your PostgreSQL server is located, and <server-name> with the name of your PostgreSQL server.
To remediate the misconfiguration “Enable ‘LOG_CONNECTIONS’ Parameter for PostgreSQL Servers” in Azure using Python, you can follow these steps:
  1. First, you need to authenticate and create a PostgreSQL server object using the Azure Python SDK. You can use the following code snippet to achieve this:
  1. Once you have the server object, you can update the server parameters to enable the “log_connections” parameter. You can use the following code snippet to achieve this:
  1. Finally, you can verify that the parameter has been updated by checking the server parameters. You can use the following code snippet to achieve this:
This code will print “on” if the “log_connections” parameter has been successfully enabled.
This change does not force replacement of the PostgreSQL server; it updates the log_connections configuration in place on the existing server.For verification, terraform plan should show creation (or update) of azurerm_postgresql_configuration.log_connections with name = "log_connections" and value = "on" and no destroy/replace of azurerm_postgresql_server.this.