configuring-log-export

Instructions for sending CockroachDB Cloud logs and performance measurements to monitoring services such as AWS CloudWatch, Google Cloud Logging, or Datadog. Log export moves records from the database service to an external monitoring system.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for setting up and troubleshooting log or metric export, checking audit-log delivery, estimating logging costs, and configuring export with Terraform.
Why use it?
It helps configure delivery correctly and diagnose missing logs, metrics, permissions, or setup requirements.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cockroachdb/cursor-plugin/configuring-log-export
Any agent
npx skills add cockroachdb/cursor-plugin --skill configuring-log-export
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cockroachdb/cursor-plugin

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When invoked 2,306 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00058 $0.02306
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.01153
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00461
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00231

Measured yesterday against content hash 62889fdd67f1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

configuring-log-export scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to configuring-log-export — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/cockroachdb-security-and-governance/configuring-log-export/SKILL.md · 265 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 265 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Configuring Log Export

Configures log and metric export for CockroachDB Cloud clusters to deliver cluster logs, audit logs, and performance metrics to external monitoring services. Supports AWS CloudWatch, GCP Cloud Logging, and third-party integrations like Datadog.

When to Use This Skill

  • Setting up log export to AWS CloudWatch or GCP Cloud Logging
  • Configuring metric export to CloudWatch or Datadog
  • Verifying that SQL audit logs are being exported to an external sink
  • Troubleshooting log export errors or missing logs
  • Estimating CloudWatch or logging service costs for CockroachDB log volume
  • Configuring log export via Terraform

Prerequisites

  • CockroachDB Cloud Advanced plan — Log export is not available on Basic or Standard plans
  • ccloud CLI authenticated with Cluster Admin role
  • Cloud provider setup:
    • AWS: CloudWatch Logs group created, IAM role granting CockroachDB Cloud cross-account access
    • GCP: Cloud Logging API enabled, service account with Logs Writer role
  • Cluster ID: Available from ccloud cluster list

Verify access:

ccloud auth whoami
ccloud cluster info <cluster-name> -o json
# Look for "plan": "ADVANCED"

Configuration Decisions

Before proceeding, determine which export destinations apply to the user's environment. Ask which options are relevant, then follow only the corresponding sections below.

Decision 1 — Log export destination:

  • AWS CloudWatch: Use when the cluster runs on AWS and logs should go to CloudWatch Logs. Requires IAM cross-account role setup.
  • GCP Cloud Logging: Use when the cluster runs on GCP. Requires a service account with Logs Writer role.

Decision 2 — Metric export destination:

  • CloudWatch: Use when metrics should go to AWS CloudWatch. Requires IAM role with cloudwatch:PutMetricData permission.
  • Datadog: Use when metrics should go to Datadog. Requires a Datadog API key and site.
  • Skip: No metric export needed at this time.

Read the full file on GitHub · 265 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 265 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 62889fdd67f1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

configuring-log-export is a skill published in the GitHub repository cockroachdb/cursor-plugin (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 2,306 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to configuring-log-export, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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