Snowflake Query Audit Logs
Snowflake query audit logs is a feature that audits queries that users run natively in Snowflake and presents them in a universal format as Immuta audit logs. Immuta uses the Snowflake QUERY_HISTORY and ACCESS_HISTORY tables and translates them into the audit logs that can be viewed at query events in the Immuta UI or exported to S3. Immuta audits the activity of Immuta users on Immuta data sources.
Requirements
Snowflake Enterprise Edition or higher
Snowflake users registered as Immuta users: Note that the users' Snowflake usernames must be mapped to Immuta. Without this, Immuta will not know the users are Immuta users and will not collect audit events for their data access activity.
Store audit logs
By default Immuta audit logs expire after 7 days. Export the universal audit model (UAM) logs to S3 or ADLS Gen 2, and store audit logs outside of Immuta in order to retain the audit logs long-term.
Audit frequency
Immuta collects audit records at the frequency configured when enabling the integration, which is between 1 and 24 hours. The frequency is a global setting based on integration type, so organizations with multiple Snowflake integrations will have the same audit frequency for all of them. The more frequent the audit records are ingested, the more current the audit records; however, there could be performance and cost impacts from the frequent jobs.
To manually request native query audit ingestion, click Load Audit Events on the Immuta audit page.
Audit schema
Each audit message from the Immuta platform will be a one-line JSON object containing the properties listed below.
action
The action associated with the audit log.
QUERY
actor.type
The Immuta user type of the actor who made the query.
USER_ACTOR
actor.id
The Immuta user ID of the actor who made the query.
taylor@snowflake.com
actor.name
The Immuta name of the user who made the query.
Taylor
actor.identityProvider
The IAM the user is registered in. bim is the built-in Immuta IAM.
bim
sessionId
The session ID of the user who performed the action.
01ee14d9-cab3-1ef6-9cc4-f0c315a53788
actionStatus
Indicates whether or not the user was granted access to the data. Possible values are UNAUTHORIZED, FAILURE, or SUCCESS.
SUCCESS
actionStatusReason
When available, the reason from Unity Catalog that the user’s query was denied.
null if actionStatus is SUCCESS
eventTimestamp
The time the query occurred.
2023-06-27T11:03:59.000Z
id
The unique ID of the audit record.
9f542dfd-5099-4362-a72d-8377306db3b8
userAgent
Client information of the user who made the query.
Snowflake Web App
tenantId
The Immuta SaaS tenant ID.
your-immuta.com
targetType
The type of targets affected by the query; this value will always be DATASOURCE.
DATASOURCE
targets
A list of the targets affected by the query.
See the example below
auditPayload.type
The type of audit record; this value will always be: QueryAuditPayload.
QueryAuditPayload
auditPayload.queryId
The unique ID of the query. If the query joins multiple tables, each table will appear as a separate log, but all will have the same query ID.
01ee14da-517a-1670-afce-0c3e0fdcf7d4
auditPayload.query
The command text of the query that was run in the integration. Immuta truncates the query text to the first 2048 characters.
SELECT VERSION AS 'version' FROM 'sample-data'.'__immuta_version'
auditPayload.startTime
The date and time the query started in UTC.
2023-06-27T11:03:59.000Z
auditPayload.duration
The time the query took in seconds.
0.557
auditPayload.errorCode
The errorCode for the denied query.
null if actionStatus is SUCCESS
auditPayload.technologyContext.type
The technology the query was made in.
SnowflakeContext
auditPayload.technologyContext.host
The host that the integration is connected to.
your-hostname.snowflake.computing.com
auditPayload.technologyContext.snowflakeUsername
The user's Snowflake username.
taylor@snowflake.com
auditPayload.technologyContext.rowsProduced
The number of rows returned in the query. Note that rows produced will show 0 for cached queries.
3
auditPayload.technologyContext.roleName
The Snowflake role the user used to make the query.
ACCOUNTADMIN
auditPayload.technologyContext.warehouseId
The ID of the warehouse where the query was made.
null
auditPayload.technologyContext.warehouseName
The name of the warehouse where the query was made.
null
auditPayload.technologyContext.clusterNumber
The number of the cluster where the query was made.
0
auditPayload.objectsAccessed
An array of the data sources accessed in the query.
See example below.
auditPayload.objectsAccessed.name
The name of the data source accessed in the query.
\"tpch\".\"tiny\".\"customer\"
auditPayload.objectsAccessed.datasourceId
The Immuta data source ID.
17
auditPayload.objectsAccessed.databaseName
The name of the Snowflake database.
tpch
auditPayload.objectsAccessed.schemaName
The name of the Snowflake schema.
tiny
auditPayload.objectsAccessed.type
Specifies if the queried data source is a table or view.
TABLE
auditPayload.objectsAccessed.columns
An array of the columns accessed in the query.
See example below.
auditPayload.objectsAccessed.columns.name
The name of the column.
custkey
auditPayload.objectsAccessed.columns.tags
An array of the tags on the column.
See example below.
auditPayload.objectsAccessed.columns.securityProfile
Details about the sensitivity of the column. Available when classification frameworks are configured.
See example below.
auditPayload.objectsAccessed.columns.inferred
If true, the column accessed has been determined by Immuta using query parsing; false if it is explicitly provided.
false
auditPayload.objectsAccessed.securityProfile
A classification for all the columns accessed together. Available when classification frameworks are configured.
See example below.
auditPayload.securityProfile.sensitivity.score
The sensitivity score of the query. Classification must be configured for this field.
INDETERMINATE
receivedTimestamp
The timestamp of when the audit event was received and stored by Immuta.
2023-06-27T15:18:22.314Z