This article covers a Bloomreach Experience Manager version 13. There's an updated version available that covers our most recent release.

Enable Audit Logging

Introduction

The audit logger component allows the logging of events posted to the Event Bus service to a plain Log4j 2 file. The event objects received from the Event Bus are encoded in a JSON string and logged at info level to an SLF4J logger. Currently, by default, the CMS posts events to the event bus about all workflow actions plus CMS log-in and CMS log-out events. Any events posted to this bus by custom plugins or applications are also logged.

Configure Log4j 2

Projects created using a recent Maven archetype already have audit logging configured by default.

To enable audit logging in other projects, add the following appender to conf/log4j2-dist.xml - this will log the audit information to the file hippo-audit.log.

    <!-- audit.log -->
    <RollingFile name="audit" fileName="${sys:catalina.base}/logs/audit.log"
                 filePattern="${sys:catalina.base}/logs/audit.log.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}">
      <PatternLayout pattern="%d{dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm:ss} [%t] %-5p [%C.%M():%L] %m%n"/>
      <Policies>
        <TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy/>
      </Policies>
    </RollingFile>

Next, add the following loggers:

    <!-- audit logging -->
    <Logger additivity="false" name="org.hippoecm.repository.api.Workflow" level="info">
      <AppenderRef ref="audit"/>
    </Logger>
    <Logger additivity="false" name="org.onehippo.audit" level="info">
      <AppenderRef ref="audit"/>
    </Logger>

Sample output

19.02.2013 16:02:05 INFO  [org.hippoecm.repository.audit.AuditLogger.logHippoEvent():39] {"message":"login successful","timestamp":1361286125920,"category":"security","application":"cms","remoteAddress":"0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1","action":"login","user":"admin","success":true}
19.02.2013 16:02:34 INFO  [org.hippoecm.repository.audit.AuditLogger.logHippoEvent():39] {"result":"document[uuid=cc4b3805-43f8-408c-81b5-466d1cb6f3f9,path='/content/documents/hippogogreen/news/2012/10/report-green-technology-trends-2013-copy/report-green-technology-trends-2013-copy']","application":"repository","interactionId":"0bc97c5e-5336-4e36-be91-8b98e1bd36c2","returnValue":"document[uuid=cc4b3805-43f8-408c-81b5-466d1cb6f3f9,path='/content/documents/hippogogreen/news/2012/10/report-green-technology-trends-2013-copy/report-green-technology-trends-2013-copy']","documentPath":"/content/documents/hippogogreen/news/2012/10","interaction":"default:reviewedactions:copy","returnType":"document","timestamp":1361286154745,"category":"workflow","arguments":["org.hippoecm.repository.api.Document[uuid=3d481407-4328-4107-b28b-d5dc8e47211e]","org.hippoecm.repository.reviewedactions.PublishableDocument[uuid=963e88f2-7a45-48a9-9b40-00e72389ff57]","report-green-technology-trends-2013-copy","<null>"],"workflowName":"folder-extended","action":"org.hippoecm.repository.standardworkflow.FolderWorkflowImpl.copyTo","className":"org.hippoecm.repository.standardworkflow.FolderWorkflowImpl","user":"admin","methodName":"copyTo","workflowCategory":"embedded"}
19.02.2013 16:02:34 INFO  [org.hippoecm.repository.audit.AuditLogger.logHippoEvent():39] {"result":"document[uuid=cbdbcc58-20ea-4352-9441-59904a401d27,path='/jcr:system/jcr:versionStorage/cc/4b/38/cc4b3805-43f8-408c-81b5-466d1cb6f3f9/1.0']","application":"repository","interactionId":"0bc97c5e-5336-4e36-be91-8b98e1bd36c2","returnValue":"document[uuid=cbdbcc58-20ea-4352-9441-59904a401d27,path='/jcr:system/jcr:versionStorage/cc/4b/38/cc4b3805-43f8-408c-81b5-466d1cb6f3f9/1.0']","documentPath":"/content/documents/hippogogreen/news/2012/10/report-green-technology-trends-2013-copy/report-green-technology-trends-2013-copy","interaction":"default:reviewedactions:copy","returnType":"document","timestamp":1361286154837,"category":"workflow","workflowName":"version","action":"org.hippoecm.repository.standardworkflow.VersionWorkflowImpl.version","handleUuid":"1ccf10a4-b324-4cd7-9d28-58cf3fdded70","className":"org.hippoecm.repository.standardworkflow.VersionWorkflowImpl","user":"workflowuser","methodName":"version","workflowCategory":"versioning"}
19.02.2013 16:02:34 INFO  [org.hippoecm.repository.audit.AuditLogger.logHippoEvent():39] {"timestamp":1361286154837,"category":"workflow","application":"repository","workflowName":"reviewedactions","interactionId":"0bc97c5e-5336-4e36-be91-8b98e1bd36c2","documentPath":"/content/documents/hippogogreen/news/2012/10/report-green-technology-trends-2013-copy/report-green-technology-trends-2013-copy","action":"org.hippoecm.repository.reviewedactions.FullReviewedActionsWorkflowImpl.depublish","handleUuid":"1ccf10a4-b324-4cd7-9d28-58cf3fdded70","interaction":"default:reviewedactions:copy","className":"org.hippoecm.repository.reviewedactions.FullReviewedActionsWorkflowImpl","methodName":"depublish","user":"admin","workflowCategory":"default"}
19.02.2013 16:02:34 INFO  [org.hippoecm.repository.audit.AuditLogger.logHippoEvent():39] {"application":"repository","interactionId":"0bc97c5e-5336-4e36-be91-8b98e1bd36c2","documentPath":"/content/documents/hippogogreen/news/2012/10/report-green-technology-trends-2013/report-green-technology-trends-2013","interaction":"default:reviewedactions:copy","timestamp":1361286154837,"category":"workflow","arguments":["org.hippoecm.repository.api.Document[uuid=3d481407-4328-4107-b28b-d5dc8e47211e]","report-green-technology-trends-2013-copy"],"workflowName":"reviewedactions","action":"org.hippoecm.repository.reviewedactions.FullReviewedActionsWorkflowImpl.copy","handleUuid":"4c7bcc24-f8a1-4f23-ab46-ab92bfaf7900","className":"org.hippoecm.repository.reviewedactions.FullReviewedActionsWorkflowImpl","user":"admin","methodName":"copy","workflowCategory":"default"}
19.02.2013 16:02:34 INFO  [org.hippoecm.repository.audit.AuditLogger.logHippoEvent():39] {"application":"repository","interactionId":"9fc6efea-5764-4cdd-9839-5b68fb70b295","documentPath":"/content/documents/hippogogreen/news/2012/10/report-green-technology-trends-2013-copy/report-green-technology-trends-2013-copy","interaction":"core:default:localizeName","timestamp":1361286154942,"category":"workflow","arguments":["Report: Green Technology Trends 2013 (copy)"],"workflowName":"default","action":"org.hippoecm.repository.standardworkflow.DefaultWorkflowImpl.localizeName","handleUuid":"1ccf10a4-b324-4cd7-9d28-58cf3fdded70","className":"org.hippoecm.repository.standardworkflow.DefaultWorkflowImpl","user":"admin","methodName":"localizeName","workflowCategory":"core"}
19.02.2013 16:02:38 INFO  [org.hippoecm.repository.audit.AuditLogger.logHippoEvent():39] {"result":"document[uuid=75070051-64af-47cd-93fc-b2c694748deb,path='/jcr:system/jcr:versionStorage/cc/4b/38/cc4b3805-43f8-408c-81b5-466d1cb6f3f9/1.1']","application":"repository","interactionId":"8d1088d4-a781-4729-bcd5-2f9cc14e2037","returnValue":"document[uuid=75070051-64af-47cd-93fc-b2c694748deb,path='/jcr:system/jcr:versionStorage/cc/4b/38/cc4b3805-43f8-408c-81b5-466d1cb6f3f9/1.1']","documentPath":"/content/documents/hippogogreen/news/2012/10/report-green-technology-trends-2013-copy/report-green-technology-trends-2013-copy","interaction":"default:reviewedactions:publish","returnType":"document","timestamp":1361286158292,"category":"workflow","workflowName":"version","action":"org.hippoecm.repository.standardworkflow.VersionWorkflowImpl.version","handleUuid":"1ccf10a4-b324-4cd7-9d28-58cf3fdded70","className":"org.hippoecm.repository.standardworkflow.VersionWorkflowImpl","user":"workflowuser","methodName":"version","workflowCategory":"versioning"}
19.02.2013 16:02:38 INFO  [org.hippoecm.repository.audit.AuditLogger.logHippoEvent():39] {"timestamp":1361286158292,"category":"workflow","application":"repository","workflowName":"reviewedactions","interactionId":"8d1088d4-a781-4729-bcd5-2f9cc14e2037","documentPath":"/content/documents/hippogogreen/news/2012/10/report-green-technology-trends-2013-copy/report-green-technology-trends-2013-copy","action":"org.hippoecm.repository.reviewedactions.FullReviewedActionsWorkflowImpl.publish","handleUuid":"1ccf10a4-b324-4cd7-9d28-58cf3fdded70","interaction":"default:reviewedactions:publish","className":"org.hippoecm.repository.reviewedactions.FullReviewedActionsWorkflowImpl","methodName":"publish","user":"admin","workflowCategory":"default"}
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