Configuring receipt of events using the MariaDB Audit Plugin

KUMA allows auditing events using the MariaDB Audit Plugin. The plugin supports MySQL 5.7 and MariaDB. The audit plugin does not support MySQL 8. Detailed information about the plugin is available on the official MariaDB website.

We recommend using MariaDB Audit Plugin version 1.2 or later.

Configuring event receiving consists of the following steps:

1. Configuring the MariaDB Audit Plugin to send MySQL events and configuring the Syslog server to send events.
2. Configuring the MariaDB Audit Plugin to send MariaDB events and configuring the Syslog server to send events.
3. Creating a KUMA Collector for MySQL 5.7 and MariaDB Events.

   To receive MySQL 5.7 and MariaDB events using the MariaDB Audit Plugin, in the KUMA Collector Installation Wizard, at the Event parsing step, in the Normalizer field, select [OOTB] MariaDB Audit Plugin syslog.

4. Installing a collector in the KUMA network infrastructure.
5. Verifying receipt of MySQL and MariaDB events by the KUMA collector.

   To verify that the MySQL and MariaDB event source server is configured correctly, you can search for related events.