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With security log forwarding, you can stream security logs directly to a cloud project owned by your organization, in real time.
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With log forwarding, you can stream logs directly to a cloud project owned by your organization, in real time. The following types of logs are available:
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* Security logs
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* Query logs
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Aura Database and Analytics services are business-critical for users.
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There are requests to introduce more capabilities enabling access to logs and metrics to derive actionable insights using your choice of monitoring platform.
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Aura has a strong roadmap of observability sharing features including security logs, query logs, and other capabilities.
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Many of these logs can be of significant size, hence *a new consumption-based billing model including cloud egress costs* will be introduced in the future.
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Security is of paramount importance, and therefore the security logs are initially available for free.
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Security is of paramount importance, and therefore the security logs are initially available for free. For query logs, a volume-based egress charge will apply. Please refer to your contract for details.
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The complete steps for setting up log forwarding depend on the chosen cloud provider.
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* label:AuraDB-Business-Critical[] A specific instance will have its logs forwarded.
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* label:AuraDB-Virtual-Dedicated-Cloud[] All instances in the selected region will have their logs forwarded.
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* label:AuraDS-Enterprise[] All instances in the selected region will have their logs forwarded.
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. Select the type of logs to forward: *Security logs* or *Query logs*.
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* For query logs, it is possible to apply certain filters to decrease the volume of forwarded data.
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. Follow the instructions specific to your cloud provider.
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Only one log forwarding configuration is permitted for each unique scope.
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Only one log forwarding configuration of each type is permitted for each unique scope.
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=== Query log filters
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To apply filters to query logs, expand the Filter section in the log forwarding configuration wizard.
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Neo4j queries produce two log entries—a start entry indicating that the query was started, and an end entry containing the result of the query execution.
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The option *Remove start entries* allows you to only forward the end entries, which is sufficient for most analytical use cases and cuts the egress volume by almost half.
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The *Include* dropdown selects whether to forward all queries, only successful queries, or only failed queries.
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== Output destination
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Log forwarding can forward logs to the log service of the same cloud provider as the monitored instance is located in.
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