Audit log plugin should allow to include or exclude logging for specific users

[Valerii Kravchuk]

This is a feature request for Percona Audit Log plugin to add settings like server_audit_excl_users and server_audit_incl_users variables in MariaDB. See https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/about-the-mariadb-audit-plugin/ for the details of how this is done in MariaDB.

The idea is get finer grained control on what is logged and reduce the performance impact of audit log plugin if logging is needed only for some users.

[Paul Caskey (paul-caskey)]

Ooo! MariaDB does this? I may switch from Percona! I have been waiting years for this, since 5.0 and earlier. It seems like such an obvious need, to me, in any environment beyond the most basic.

[Paul Caskey (paul-caskey)]

Ideally the same wildcard options for replication would be available for logging. With the username logged on the same line as the query.

[Sergei Glushchenko (sergei.glushchenko)]

https://github.com/percona/percona-server/pull/614
https://github.com/percona/percona-server/pull/629

[Shahriyar Rzayev (rzayev-sehriyar)]

Percona now uses JIRA for bug reports so this bug report is migrated to: https://jira.percona.com/browse/PS-2469