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Ensures all Kubernetes clusters have logging enabled. This setting should be enabled to ensure Kubernetes control plane logs are properly recorded.

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Risk Level

Medium

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Address

Security

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Compliance Standards

HITRUST, SOC2, NISTCSF, PCIDSS

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Triage and Remediation

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Remediation

Using Console

To remediate the misconfiguration “Logging Should Be Enabled” for GCP using GCP console, please follow the below steps:
  1. Login to GCP console (https://console.cloud.google.com/).
  2. Select the project for which you want to enable logging.
  3. In the left navigation menu, select “Logging”.
  4. Click on “Log Exports” tab.
  5. Click on “Create Export” button.
  6. Select the logs which you want to export to Stackdriver Logging.
  7. Choose the destination where you want to export logs to (e.g. BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage).
  8. Configure the export settings as per your requirement.
  9. Click on “Create” button.
Once the above steps are completed, logging will be enabled for your GCP project and you will be able to view logs in the Stackdriver Logging console.

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To remediate the misconfiguration “Logging Should Be Enabled” for GCP using GCP CLI, follow these steps:
  1. Open the Cloud Shell in the GCP Console.
  2. Run the following command to enable Stackdriver Logging for all resources in the current project: 
    gcloud logging apply --configuration=cloudaudit.googleapis.com
  3. If you want to enable Stackdriver Logging for a specific resource, run the following command: 
    gcloud logging apply <resource-type>/<resource-name> --configuration=cloudaudit.googleapis.com
    Replace <resource-type> with the type of resource (e.g. gce_instance, cloud_function) and <resource-name> with the name of the resource.
  4. Verify that Stackdriver Logging is enabled by going to the Logging page in the GCP Console. You should see logs for the resources that you enabled logging for.
  5. Repeat steps 2-4 for all projects and resources in your GCP environment to ensure that logging is enabled for all resources.
By following these steps, you should be able to remediate the “Logging Should Be Enabled” misconfiguration for GCP using GCP CLI.
To remediate the misconfiguration “Logging should be enabled” for GCP using Python, you can follow the below steps:
  1. First, you need to create a service account with the required permissions to enable logging. You can create a service account using the GCP console or using the following Python code:
from google.oauth2 import service_account

credentials = service_account.Credentials.from_service_account_file('path/to/service_account.json')
  1. Next, you need to enable logging for the GCP project. You can use the google-cloud-logging library to enable logging using the following Python code:
from google.cloud import logging_v2

client = logging_v2.LoggingServiceV2Client(credentials=credentials)
project_name = f"projects/{project_id}"
project = client.get_project(project_name)

if not project.logging_enabled:
    project.logging_enabled = True
    update_mask = {"paths": ["logging_enabled"]}
    client.update_project(project=project, update_mask=update_mask)
  1. Replace project_id with the ID of the GCP project for which you want to enable logging.
  2. Finally, run the Python script to enable logging for the GCP project.
These steps will remediate the misconfiguration “Logging should be enabled” for GCP using Python.

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