For additional details on how to connect and get started, jump to the Connecting to SQL Database Auditing section below.
In this post we’ll cover how to get better insights to your SQL Database Auditing data using Power BI. This initial version of the content pack makes it easy to find suspicious events, unusual activity, and trends, based on a dataset that has been created for your reporting.
#Agent activity audit update#
With the latest update to Power BI, you can connect to the data logged by SQL Database Auditing with a set of out of box reports and a customized dashboard. These logs can be used to help gain insight into discrepancies and anomalies that could indicate business concerns or suspected security violations. Use these reports to audit user behavior and login management.Azure SQL Database Auditing logs tracks database events, enabling you to retain, report and analyze the activities in the instances you monitor. These reports list user activities performed on a specific SQL Server instance, and provide a history of login creations and deletions. Use these reports to audit your SQL Server security settings and identify misconduct. These reports list permission changes by object type as well as unauthorized attempts to execute activities. Use the Regulation Guideline report to audit the regulatory guidelines applied to your SQL Server instance, or use the Regulation Compliance Check report to ensure that your servers and databases continue to be in compliance with the selected regulatory guidelines. These reports list all the regulations and their individual guidelines applied to your servers and databases. Use these reports to diagnose audit data integrity issues and track agent configuration changes as well as agent activities, such as SQL Compliance Manager Agent service restarts. These reports list changes and updates applied to the SQL Compliance Manager Agent deployed on a specific SQL Server, and any integrity violations in your audit data. Use this report to audit user behavior from multiple client computers, identifying the host computer from which an activity request originated. The Host Activity report lists all host computers from which specific logins executed an action. Use these reports to audit data definition language (DDL) statements, such as dropped tables, executed against one or more databases on a SQL Server instance. The Database Schema Change History report lists schema changes applied to audited databases. Use these reports to audit mass data movement or database object activity, such as SELECT or UPDATE, across multiple databases.
These reports list backup, restore, DBCC, DML, and database object activities on specific databases. Use these reports to reconcile the differences in regards to the configurations across different servers and databases. The configuration check report lists all the configurations selected on a Server or Database. Use these reports to audit activity across multiple applications and databases. These reports list activity details, such as login, event, and time of activity, per application and database. Use this report to audit overall activity levels on your SQL Server instances and databases.
The Daily Audit Activity Statistics report lists the amount of activity that occurred on the SQL Server instance or designated database, on an hourly basis, for the dates specified. Use these reports to audit Event and Status Alerts triggered over a specified time period. These reports list alert details, such as target object, affected SQL Server instance, the event, and time of the alert. Opens the Report Manager on the Reporting Services server, allowing you to see which SQL Compliance Manager reports you have deployed. In the Reporting Services pane, click View Deployed Reports. Starts the Reports Installer, allowing you to deploy individual IDERA SQL Compliance Manager reports to your existing Reporting Services server and customize the report. In the Reporting Services pane, click Deploy Reports. Use the Audit Reports tree to navigate to the appropriate report, and then specify your criteria in the report view.ĭeploy reports to Microsoft Reporting Services Use these reports to confirm regulatory compliance, enforce security policies, and capture activity history.
#Agent activity audit archive#
Each report lets you view and track audited events stored in your event databases and archive files. The Audit reports view allows you to generate audit reports using the built-in Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Report Viewer (Report Viewer).
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