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Get Database Access History for a Cluster by Hostname

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Retrieve the access logs of a cluster by hostname.

Note

Groups and projects are synonymous terms. Your {GROUP-ID} is the same as your project ID. For existing groups, your group/project ID remains the same. The resource and corresponding endpoints use the term groups.

Note
Feature unavailable in Free and Shared-Tier Clusters

This feature is not available for M0 free clusters, M2, and M5 clusters. To learn more about which features are unavailable, see Atlas M0 (Free Cluster), M2, and M5 Limitations.

The Atlas Administration API authenticates using HTTP Digest Authentication. Provide a programmatic API public key and corresponding private key as the username and password when constructing the HTTP request. To learn how to configure API access for an Atlas project, see Get Started with the Atlas Administration API.

Base URL: https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0

GET /groups/{GROUP-ID}/dbAccessHistory/processes/{HOSTNAME}
Path Element
Required/Optional
Description
GROUP-ID
Required.
The unique identifier for the project.
HOSTNAME
Required.
The hostname of the cluster.

This endpoint may use any of the HTTP request query parameters available to all Atlas Administration API resources. These are all optional.

Name
Type
Necessity
Description
Default
pageNum
integer
Optional
Page number, starting with one, that Atlas returns of the total number of objects.
1
itemsPerPage
integer
Optional
Number of items that Atlas returns per page, up to a maximum of 500.
100
includeCount
boolean
Optional
Flag that indicates whether Atlas returns the totalCount parameter in the response body.
true
pretty
boolean
Optional
Flag that indicates whether Atlas returns the JSON response in the prettyprint format.
false
envelope
boolean
Optional

Flag that indicates whether Atlas wraps the response in an envelope.

Some API clients cannot access the HTTP response headers or status code. To remediate this, set envelope=true in the query.

Endpoints that return a list of results use the results object as an envelope. Atlas adds the status parameter to the response body.

false
start
number
Optional
Timestamp in the number of milliseconds that have elapsed since the UNIX epoch for the first entry that Atlas returns from the database access logs.
Current timestamp minus 30 days
end
number
Optional
Timestamp in the number of milliseconds that have elapsed since the UNIX epoch for the last entry that Atlas returns from the database access logs.
Current timestamp
nLogs
number
Optional
Maximum number of log entries to return. Atlas accepts values between 0 and 20000, inclusive.
20000
ipAddress
string
Optional
Single IP address that attempted to authenticate with the database. Atlas filters the returned logs to include documents with only this IP address.
authResult
Boolean
Optional
Flag that indicates whether to return either successful or failed authentication attempts. When set to true, Atlas filters the log to return only successful authentication attempts. When set to false, Atlas filters the log to return only failed authentication attempts.

This endpoint does not use HTTP request body parameters.

Name
Type
Description
accessLogs
object array
The authentication attempts made against the cluster. Each object is a separate attempt.
authResult
boolean
The result of the authentication attempt. Returns true if the authentication request was successful. Returns false if the authentication request resulted in failure.
authSource
string
The database that the request attempted to authenticate against. Returns admin if the authentication source for the user is SCRAM-SHA. Returns $external if the authentication source for the user is LDAP.
failureReason
string
The reason that the request failed to authenticate. Returns null if the authentication request was successful.
groupId
string
The unique identifier for the project.
hostname
string
The hostname of the target node that received the authentication attempt.
clusterName
string
The name associated with the cluster.
ipAddress
string
The IP address that the authentication attempt originated from.
logLine
string
The text of the server log concerning the authentication attempt.
timestamp
string
The UTC timestamp of the authentication attempt.
username
string
The username that attempted to authenticate.
curl --user "username:apiKey" --digest \
--header "Accept: application/json" \
--request GET "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/groups/571c390a7cea7e4dbf32b625/dbAccessHistory/processes/cluster0-shard-00-00-c01ab.mongodb.net:27017?start=1564064082000&end=1564064082000&nLogs=2"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: application/json
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=300
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
{
"accessLogs": [
{
"authResult": true,
"authSource": "admin",
"failureReason": null,
"groupId": "571c390a7cea7e4dbf32b625",
"hostname": "cluster0-shard-00-00-c01ab.mongodb.net:27017",
"clusterName": "cluster0",
"ipAddress": "123.45.0.1",
"logLine": "2019-07-25T19:14:42.484+0000 I ACCESS [conn2167] Successfully authenticated as principal jon-snow on admin from client 123.45.0.1:8080",
"timestamp": "Sun Jul 25 9:14:42 EDT 2019",
"username": "jon-snow"
},
{
"authResult": false,
"authSource": "admin",
"failureReason": "UserNotFound: Could not find user \"jane-doe\" for db \"admin\"",
"groupId": "571c390a7cea7e4dbf32b625",
"hostname": "cluster0-shard-00-00-c01ab.mongodb.net:27017",
"clusterName": "cluster0",
"ipAddress": "123.45.2.2",
"logLine": "2019-07-25T19:13:39.316+0000 I ACCESS [conn1893] SASL SCRAM-SHA-1 authentication failed for jane-doe on admin from client 123.45.2.2:51842 ; UserNotFound: Could not find user \"jane-doe\" for db \"admin\"",
"timestamp": "Sun Jul 25 9:14:42 EDT 2019",
"username": "jane-doe"
}
]}
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