Help Wanted: Clarify Audit Logging Configuration Placement

In the Audit Log v2 docs under Configuring Audit Log in Mattermost it says this:

Open config.json and navigate to the audit settings under ExperimentalAuditSettings. Within the setting AdvancedLoggingConfig you are able to specifiy a filespec to another config file, a database DSN, or JSON.

However, it does not provide an example of what this looks like in the config.json, nor a reference to describe what a filespec means.

[icelander]

@Gregesp I was able to get the audit logging to work with configuration in database like this:

First, put the audit logging settings into a JSON file, e.g. audit_logging.json

Next, run this command to use set a shell variable to the escaped JSON using jq

config=`jq -c '.' < ./audit_logging.json` 

Then, run this command to set the configuration value:

mmctl config set ExperimentalAuditSettings.AdvancedLoggingConfig $config

If you are trying to automate deployment, you can use mmctl --local and enable Local Mode

[wiggin77]

@untergeek, when embedding the AdvancedLoggingConfig in config.json the config should be embedded as a string containing escaped JSON. I know this is not ideal, and I’ll create a ticket to allow non-escaped JSON embedding, but for now that is what the code will accept. A tool like this https://www.freeformatter.com/json-escape.html can be used to escape the JSON to something that be included as a string.