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MongoDB must provide a warning to appropriate support staff when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75 percent of maximum audit record storage capacity.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-279376MD8X-00-006900SV-279376r1179479_ruleCCI-001855medium
Description
Organizations are required to use a central log management system, so, under normal conditions, the audit space allocated to the database management system (DBMS) on its own server will not be an issue. However, space will still be required on the DBMS server for audit records in transit, and, under abnormal conditions, this could fill up. Since a requirement exists to halt processing upon audit failure, a service outage would result. If support personnel are not notified immediately upon storage volume utilization reaching 75 percent, they are unable to plan for storage capacity expansion. The appropriate support staff include, at a minimum, the information system security officer (ISSO) and the database administrator (DBA)/system administrator (SA).
STIGDate
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced 8.x Security Technical Implementation Guide2026-02-20

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 3 frameworks
SCF0 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (1) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

MON-05.2Event Log Storage Capacity Alerting
1.00
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (11) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

AU-12Audit Record Generation
1.00
AU-3Content of Audit Records
1.00
AU-3(1)Additional Audit Information
1.00
AU-4Audit Log Storage Capacity
1.00
AU-4(1)Transfer to Alternate Storage
1.00
AU-5Response to Audit Logging Process Failures
1.00
AU-5(1)Storage Capacity Warning
1.00
AU-5(2)Real-time Alerts
1.00
AU-7Audit Record Reduction and Report Generation
1.00
AU-9(3)Cryptographic Protection
1.00

+1 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

CCI1 mapping
CCI-001855
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-279376r1179479_chk)

Verify auditing is enabled in the mongodb configuration file (default location /etc/mongod.conf) and view the "auditlog.path" to identify the storage volume. Verify OS or other organization approved third-party monitoring software is installed. Verify the required alert in the monitoring software is set to send when storage volume holding the auditLog file utilization reaches 75 percent. If appropriate support staff are not notified immediately upon storage volume utilization reaching 75 percent, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-83834r1179478_fix)

View the mongodb configuration file (default location /etc/mongod.conf) and view the "auditlog.path" to identify the storage volume. Install OS or other organization-approved third-party monitoring software. Configure the required alert in the monitoring software to send an alert when storage volume holding the auditLog file utilization reaches 75 percent.