Ensure That the Log Metric Filter and Alerts Exist for SQL Instance Configuration Changes

Risk Level: Low
Cloud Entity: GCP AlertPolicy
CloudGuard Rule ID: D9.GCP.LOG.26
Covered by Spectral: No
Category: Management Tools

GSL LOGIC

AlertPolicy where conditions contain [ conditionThreshold.logName] and enabled='true' should have conditions contain [ getResource('LogBasedMetric',conditionThreshold.logName)  getValue('filter') ='protoPayload.methodName="cloudsql.instances.update"']

REMEDIATION

From Portal
Create the prescribed Log Metric:

1. Go to Logging/Logs-based Metrics by visiting https://console.cloud.google.com/logs/metrics and click "CREATE METRIC".
2. Select Metric Type as Counter, enter Log metric name and Units to 1.
3. Clear any text and add:

protoPayload.methodName="cloudsql.instances.update"

4. Click CREATE METRIC. The logs display based on the filter text entered by the user.

Create the prescribed alert policy:

1. Identify the newly created metric under the section User-defined Metrics at https://console.cloud.google.com/logs/metrics.
2. Click the 3-dot icon in the rightmost column for the new metric and select 'Create alert from Metric'. A new page appears.
3. Fill out the alert policy configuration and click Save. Choose the alerting threshold and configuration that makes sense for the user's organization. For example, a threshold of zero(0) for the most recent value will ensure that a notification is triggered for every owner change in the user's project:
4. Configure the desired notification channels in the section Notifications.
5. Name the policy and click Save.

From Command Line

1. Create the prescribed log metric. Reference for command usage: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/beta/logging/metrics/create
   use the command:

gcloud beta logging metrics create METRIC_NAME --description="DESCRIPTION" --log-filter="LOG_FILTER"

2. You can find the notification channel ID using:

gcloud alpha monitoring channels list --filter='displayName="channel_name"' --format='value(name)'

3. Create the prescribed alert policy.Reference for command usage: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/alpha/monitoring/policies/create

• Create a json file with required properties and values for the policy(try creating a policy from console and then download it's json to have a reference) and use the command:

gcloud alpha monitoring policies create --policy-from-file="policyfile.json"

From TF
Create log based metric with expected filter
Create an alerting policy with type 'metric' based on the previous created log based metric.

Resources:
google_logging_metric
google_monitoring_alert_policy

See below example;

resource "google_logging_metric" "my_log_metrics" {
	project = "My-project-id"
	name = "my-(custom)/metric"
	filter = "protoPayload.methodName="cloudsql.instances.update"
	description = "..."
	metric_descriptor {
		metric_kind = "DELTA"
		value_type  = "INT64"
	}
}

And

resource "google_monitoring_alert_policy" "alert_policy" {
	project = "My-project-id"
	display_name = "My Alert Policy"
	combiner = "OR"
	conditions {
		display_name = "test condition"
		condition_threshold {
			filter = "metric.type="logging.googleapis.com/user/my-(custom)/metric" AND resource.type="cloud_composer_environment""
			duration   = "0s"
			comparison = "COMPARISON_GT"
		}
	}
}

References

1. https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/logs-based-metrics/
2. https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/custom-metrics/
3. https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/alerts/
4. https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/reference/tools/gcloud-logging
5. https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/overview
6. https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/
7. https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/
8. https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/
9. https://workbench.cisecurity.org/sections/507170/recommendations/827564

GCP AlertPolicy

Alerting policy describes the circumstances under which you want to be alerted and how you want to be notified. This page provides an overview of alerting policies

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