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Namit Jain commented on HIVE-1948: ---------------------------------- What about the performance impact for this ? I mean, there seems to be no way to turn it off - is reading the conf. try { ugi = ShimLoader.getHadoopShims().getUGIForConf(getConf()); } catch (Exception ex) { throw new RuntimeException(ex); } for every audit operation acceptable ? > Have audit logging in the Metastore > ----------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-1948 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1948 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Metastore > Reporter: Devaraj Das > Assignee: Devaraj Das > Fix For: 0.7.0 > > Attachments: audit-log.1.patch, audit-log.patch > > > It would be good to have audit logging in the metastore, similar to Hadoop's > NameNode audit logging. This would allow administrators to dig into details > about which user performed metadata operations (like create/drop > tables/partitions) and from where (IP address). -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira