Audit logs - Operator HTTP API

The /operator/audit endpoints provide tools to interact with Consul's audit logging subsystem through Consul's HTTP API.

The audit logging functionality described here is available only in Consul Enterprise version 1.8.0 and later.

Refer to the audit logging documentation for workflow guidance and additional information.

Calculate data hash

This endpoint calculates the hash of the data used by the audit log hash function and salt.

The following table shows this endpoint's support for blocking queries, consistency modes, agent caching, and required ACLs.

The corresponding CLI command is consul operator audit hash.

JSON request body schema

• Input (string: <required>) - Specifies the input string to hash.

Sample payload

{
  "Input": "test"
}

Sample request

$ curl \
    --request POST \
    --data @payload.json \
    http://127.0.0.1:8500/v1/operator/audit-hash

Sample response

{
  "Hash": "hmac_sha256:794c39dbc00d4714740199fe79982d02bbc5d303ab73149dfabc1244e3df3d4c"
}