Triage and Remediation
Remediation
Using Console
Using Console
To remediate the misconfiguration of GCP DNS not having logging enabled, you can follow the below steps using the GCP console:
- Open the GCP console and navigate to the Cloud DNS page.
- Select the DNS zone that needs to have logging enabled.
- Click on the “Edit” button at the top of the page.
- In the “Logging” section, select the checkbox for “Log DNS queries”.
- Choose the destination for the logs. You can either select “Logs Explorer” or “Cloud Storage”.
- If you choose “Cloud Storage”, provide the bucket name and folder path where the logs will be stored.
- Click on the “Save” button to save the changes.
Using CLI
Using CLI
To remediate the misconfiguration of GCP DNS not having logging enabled, follow the below steps:
- Open the Google Cloud Console and select the project that needs to be remediated.
- Click on the Navigation menu and select “Logging” under the “Operations” section.
- Click on the “Log Exports” tab and then click on the “Create Export” button.
- In the “Create Export” window, select “Cloud Storage” as the sink destination.
- Select the Cloud Storage bucket where you want to store the logs.
- In the “Filter” section, select “Advanced Filter” and enter the following filter:
- Click on the “Create” button to create the export.
- Now, go to the Cloud DNS page in the Google Cloud Console.
- Click on the name of the DNS zone that needs to be remediated.
- Click on the “Edit” button at the top of the page.
- In the “Logging” section, select the “Export to Cloud Logging” checkbox.
- Select the log export that was created in step 7 from the dropdown list.
- Click on the “Save” button to save the changes.
Using Python
Using Python
To remediate this misconfiguration, you can use the following steps in Python:These steps will enable logging for DNS in GCP. You can modify the filter to include other log types as well.
- Import the required libraries:
- Set up the client for the GCP project:
- Define the log metric:
- Create the log metric:
- Verify that the log metric has been created: