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Azure Database for MySQL

Overview

Azure Database for MySQL provides fully managed, enterprise-ready community MySQL database as a service. The service is developed and managed by Microsoft Corp.

Event Categories

The following table lists the data source offered by this integration.

Data Source Description
Authentication logs user authentication events are parsed
Application logs SQL requests are analyzed

Configure

This setup guide will show you how to forward events produced by Azure MySQL service to SEKOIA.IO.

Theses changes have to be made from the Azure Web Portal.

Azure Event Hubs

As a prerequisite, you need to choose an existing “resource group”, or create a new one (e.g. company-resource-group).

Retrieve your Subscription ID

You also need your “Subscription ID” if you don't have a default one. In Azure Web Portal, navigate to: “Home”, “Cost Management + Billing”, ”Subscriptions”. From there, copy the relevant “Subscription ID” that will be used in the command line (e.g. uuid)

Create the Event Hubs

Use Azure PowerShell (within Cloud Shell interface for example) to create a namespace (e.g. company-eventhub) and a specific Event Hub (e.g. mysql-event) within your “resource group” (e.g. company-resource-group)

PS Azure:\> az eventhubs namespace create --name company-eventhub --resource-group company-resource-group --enable-kafka true --subscription uuid

PS Azure:\> az eventhubs eventhub create --resource-group company-resource-group --namespace-name company-eventhub --name mysql-event --message-retention 3 --partition-count 4 --subscription uuid

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Please replace :

  • company-resource-group with the name of your “resource group”.
  • uuid with your subscription ID retrieved previously (see below).

Create “Shared Access Policies”

  1. Navigate to “Home”, “Event Hubs”, “company-eventhub - Shared access policies”. From there, you can create a policy (e.g. RootManageSharedAccessKey) with the claims Manage, Send and Listen, and note the Primary Key that will be used as the SharedAccessKey.
  2. Navigate to “Home”, “Event Hubs”, “company-eventhub”, “mysql-event - Shared access policies”. From there, you can create a policy (e.g. sekoiaio) with the claims Listen. Once created, click on the policy and save the Connection string-primary key, to be sent to SEKOIA.IO.
  3. Navigate to “Home”, “Event Hubs”, “company-eventhub”, ”mysql-event - Consumer groups”. From there, you can create a consumer group (e.g. sekoiaio).

Create a Blob Storage for Checkpointing

In order to allow SEKOIA.IO keep track of the consumed events, the next step consists in creating a dedicated Azure Blob Storage.

To proceed, you can use Azure PowerShell:

PS Azure:\> az storage account create --name "sekoiaiocheckpoint" --resource-group "company-resource-group"

PS Azure:\> az storage container create --name "mysql-event" --account-name "sekoiaiocheckpoint"

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The container name, here mysql-event should be the same as the Event Hub’s one. You also need to replace company-resource-group with the name of your “resource group”.

Finally, you have to retrieve the connection string from Azure Web Portal by going in “Storage Accounts”, then in the created storage (sekoiaiocheckpoint) and finally in the “Access Keys” section. After clicking on “Show keys”, you can copy the first of the two connection strings.

Azure MySQL

You need to activate and configure the Azure MySQL diagnostic settings (e.g. company-mysql).

Navigate to “Home”, “SQL databases” (e.g. company-mysql), “Monitoring” and “Diagnostic settings”:

  • Add a new diagnostic setting, and select “Stream to an event hub” and click on configure.
  • Select the previously created “Event hubs”, “Event Hub” and SharedAccessKey.
  • In the log section, select MySqlAuditLogs and MySqlSlowLogs.
  • Choose a name for this configuration and click on “Save”.

Forward the Connection Keys to SEKOIA.IO

Finally, please send to SEKOIA.IO the following information:

  • Azure Event Hub’s “Connection string-primary key” (e.g. "Endpoint=sb://company-eventhub.servicebus.windows.net/;SharedAccessKeyName=sekoiaio;SharedAccessKey=XXXXXX;EntityPath=mysql-event").
  • Azure Event Hub’s consumer group name (e.g. sekoiaio).
  • Azure Blob Storage’s connection string (e.g. "DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=sekoiaiocheckpoint;AccountKey=XXXXX").