Profile applicability: Level 1 - Master Node
Retain the logs for at least 30 days or as appropriate.
Retaining logs for at least 30 days ensures that you can go back in time and investigate
or correlate any events. Set your audit log retention period to 30 days or as per
your business requirements.
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NoteBy default, auditing is not enabled.
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Audit
Run the following command on the Control Plane node:
ps -ef | grep kube-apiserver
Verify that the
--audit-log-maxage
argument is set to 30 or as appropriate.Remediation
Edit the API server pod specification file
/etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.yaml
on the Control Plane node and set the --audit-log-maxage
parameter to 30 or as an appropriate number of days:--audit-log-maxage=30