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AnalyticDB:SQL audit

Last Updated:Jun 21, 2026

The SQL audit feature records Data Manipulation Language (DML) and Data Definition Language (DDL) operations on your database in real time and lets you search them.

Limitations

The SQL audit log does not record the following operations:

  • INSERT INTO VALUES

  • REPLACE INTO VALUES

  • UPSERT INTO VALUES

Enable or disable SQL audit

  1. Log on to the AnalyticDB for MySQL console. In the upper-left corner of the console, select a region. In the left-side navigation pane, click Clusters. Find the cluster that you want to manage and click the cluster ID.

  2. Navigate to the SQL Audit page.

    • For clusters of Enterprise Edition, Basic Edition, and Data Lakehouse Edition, choose Cluster Management > SQL Audit in the left-side navigation pane.

    • For clusters of Data Warehouse Edition, click Data Security in the left-side navigation pane, and then click SQL Audit.

  3. In the upper-right corner, click Configure SQL Audit.

  4. In the dialog box that appears, select Yes and click OK.

  5. To disable the SQL audit feature, repeat Steps 1 to 3 to open the Configure SQL Audit dialog box, and then select No.

    Important

    Disabling the SQL audit feature clears all existing SQL audit logs. We recommend that you query and export your SQL audit logs before you disable this feature. When you re-enable SQL audit, logs are generated from that point on.

Query and export SQL audit logs

On the SQL Audit page, you can query SQL audit logs for a specific period based on criteria such as Operation Type or Execution Status.

Note
  • You can only query SQL audit logs from the last 30 days. Queries for data older than 30 days return empty results.

  • A single query can span up to 24 hours. To save the logs on the current page to a local file, click Export Current Page.

FAQ

Double audit logs for INSERT OVERWRITE

INSERT OVERWRITE statements are executed asynchronously within AnalyticDB for MySQL. An access node distributes the query task to different storage nodes and returns the final result to the client. Therefore, the audit log records the IP addresses of both the originating client and the AnalyticDB for MySQL access node.

Missing DROP statements in audit logs

If the table recycle bin feature is enabled for the cluster, DROP statements are not written to the SQL audit log. To check if the table recycle bin is enabled, run the following command:

SHOW ADB_CONFIG KEY=DROP_FORCE;

  • If the command returns false, the table recycle bin is enabled. The cluster rewrites DROP statements and moves the dropped tables to the recycle bin. As a result, the DROP statements do not appear in the SQL audit log.

  • If the command returns true, the table recycle bin is disabled. DROP statements are recorded in the SQL audit log as expected.

Missing UPDATE statements after DTS synchronization

When Data Transmission Service (DTS) synchronizes data from ApsaraDB RDS, it rewrites source UPDATE statements as REPLACE INTO VALUES statements or a combination of DELETE and INSERT statements before writing the data to the destination. Because the SQL audit feature does not record REPLACE INTO VALUES statements (see the Limitations section), the original UPDATE statements are not directly visible in the audit log.

API reference

Edition

API

Enterprise Edition, Basic Edition, and Data Lakehouse Edition

ModifyAuditLogConfig

DescribeAuditLogRecords

Data Warehouse Edition

DescribeAuditLogConfig

ModifyAuditLogConfig

DescribeAuditLogRecords