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atlas auditing update

Updates the auditing configuration for the specified project

To use this command, you must authenticate with a user account, a service account, or an API key with the Project Owner role.

Command Syntax
atlas auditing update [options]
Name
Type
Required
Description

--auditAuthorizationSuccess

false

Flag that indicates whether someone set auditing to track successful authentications. This only applies to the "atype" : "authCheck" audit filter. Setting this parameter to true degrades cluster performance.

--auditFilter

string

false

JSON document that specifies which events to record. Escape any characters that may prevent parsing, such as single or double quotes, using a backslash ().

Mutually exclusive with --file.

--enabled

false

Flag that indicates whether someone enabled database auditing for the specified project.

-f, --file

string

false

Path to an optional JSON configuration file that defines auditing filters. To learn more about auditing configuration files for the Atlas CLI, see https://www.mongodb.com/docs/atlas/database-auditing/#example-auditing-filters

Mutually exclusive with --auditFilter.

-h, --help

false

help for update

-o, --output

string

false

Output format. Valid values are json, json-path, go-template, or go-template-file. To see the full output, use the -o json option.

--projectId

string

false

Hexadecimal string that identifies the project to use. This option overrides the settings in the configuration file or environment variable.

Name
Type
Required
Description

-P, --profile

string

false

Name of the profile to use from your configuration file. To learn about profiles for the Atlas CLI, see https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/atlas-cli-save-connection-settings.

If the command succeeds, the CLI returns output similar to the following sample. Values in brackets represent your values.

Auditing configuration successfully updated.
# Audit all authentication events for known users:
atlas auditing update --auditFilter '{"atype": "authenticate"}'
# Audit all authentication events for known user via a configuration file:
atlas auditing update -f filter.json