App Engine Memcache audit logging

This document describes audit logging for App Engine Memcache. Google Cloud services generate audit logs that record administrative and access activities within your Google Cloud resources. For more information about Cloud Audit Logs, see the following:

• Types of audit logs
• Audit log entry structure
• Storing and routing audit logs
• Cloud Logging pricing summary
• Enable Data Access audit logs

Notes

Audit logs only apply to operations made through Cloud Console. Memcache operations initiated within your app will not be audit logged.

Service name

App Engine Memcache audit logs use the service name appenginememcacheconsole.googleapis.com. Filter for this service:

    protoPayload.serviceName="appenginememcacheconsole.googleapis.com"
  

Methods by permission type

To enable these data access audit logs, you must enable data access audit logs for appengine.googleapis.com.

Each IAM permission has a type property, whose value is an enum that can be one of four values: ADMIN_READ, ADMIN_WRITE, DATA_READ, or DATA_WRITE. When you call a method, App Engine Memcache generates an audit log whose category is dependent on the type property of the permission required to perform the method. Methods that require an IAM permission with the type property value of DATA_READ, DATA_WRITE, or ADMIN_READ generate Data Access audit logs. Methods that require an IAM permission with the type property value of ADMIN_WRITE generate Admin Activity audit logs.

Permission type	Methods
DATA_READ	cloud_cache.MemcacheAdminService.GetMemcacheItem
DATA_WRITE	cloud_cache.MemcacheAdminService.DeleteMemcacheItem cloud_cache.MemcacheAdminService.FlushAllMemcacheItems cloud_cache.MemcacheAdminService.SetMemcacheItem

API interface audit logs

For information about how and which permissions are evaluated for each method, see the Identity and Access Management documentation for App Engine Memcache.

cloud_cache.MemcacheAdminService

The following audit logs are associated with methods belonging to cloud_cache.MemcacheAdminService.

DeleteMemcacheItem

• Method: cloud_cache.MemcacheAdminService.DeleteMemcacheItem
  
• Audit log type: Data access
  
• Permissions:
  • appengine.memcache.update - DATA_WRITE
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: No.
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="cloud_cache.MemcacheAdminService.DeleteMemcacheItem"
  

FlushAllMemcacheItems

• Method: cloud_cache.MemcacheAdminService.FlushAllMemcacheItems
  
• Audit log type: Data access
  
• Permissions:
  • appengine.memcache.flush - DATA_WRITE
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: No.
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="cloud_cache.MemcacheAdminService.FlushAllMemcacheItems"
  

GetMemcacheItem

• Method: cloud_cache.MemcacheAdminService.GetMemcacheItem
  
• Audit log type: Data access
  
• Permissions:
  • appengine.memcache.get - DATA_READ
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: No.
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="cloud_cache.MemcacheAdminService.GetMemcacheItem"
  

SetMemcacheItem

• Method: cloud_cache.MemcacheAdminService.SetMemcacheItem
  
• Audit log type: Data access
  
• Permissions:
  • appengine.memcache.addKey - DATA_WRITE
• Method is a long-running or streaming operation: No.
  
• Filter for this method: protoPayload.methodName="cloud_cache.MemcacheAdminService.SetMemcacheItem"