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Kubernetes audit logging

4 posts in this series. Read them in order or jump to any one.

  1. Kubernetes Audit Log Format: Anatomy of an Audit Event

    Field-by-field guide to the Kubernetes audit log format: stages, levels, user, sourceIPs, objectRef, responseStatus, annotations, and what matters in forensics.

  2. Kubernetes Audit Policy: What to Log for Forensics

    Write a Kubernetes audit policy that captures the evidence an investigation needs (exec, RBAC, workloads, tokens) without logging secrets or drowning in noise.

  3. EKS, GKE and AKS Audit Logs: Enable and Export Them

    How to enable and export Kubernetes audit logs on Amazon EKS, Google GKE and Azure AKS: where they live, what the managed policy drops, and the export commands.

  4. What Kubernetes Audit Logs Don't Show (and What Does)

    The blind spots of Kubernetes audit logs: in-container activity, kubelet and etcd access, policy gaps, spoofable fields, and the evidence that fills them.

All posts in this series

Field-by-field guide to the Kubernetes audit log format: stages, levels, user, sourceIPs, objectRef, responseStatus, annotations, and what matters in forensics.
Write a Kubernetes audit policy that captures the evidence an investigation needs (exec, RBAC, workloads, tokens) without logging secrets or drowning in noise.
How to enable and export Kubernetes audit logs on Amazon EKS, Google GKE and Azure AKS: where they live, what the managed policy drops, and the export commands.
The blind spots of Kubernetes audit logs: in-container activity, kubelet and etcd access, policy gaps, spoofable fields, and the evidence that fills them.

This tool is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by The Linux Foundation, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) or the Kubernetes project. Kubernetes and K8s are registered trademarks of The Linux Foundation. EKS, GKE, AKS and other names are trademarks of their respective owners.