From 1500d69283bd57aafc2c6954272540eaf5cf4b14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mik Vyatskov Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:37:34 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add a warning about increased memory consumption for audit logging feature. (#7725) Signed-off-by: Mik Vyatskov --- docs/tasks/debug-application-cluster/audit.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/tasks/debug-application-cluster/audit.md b/docs/tasks/debug-application-cluster/audit.md index 356840acf5..963d923b8b 100644 --- a/docs/tasks/debug-application-cluster/audit.md +++ b/docs/tasks/debug-application-cluster/audit.md @@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ of its execution generates an event, which is then pre-processed according to a certain policy and written to a backend. You can find more details about the pipeline in the [design proposal][auditing-proposal]. +**Note,** that audit logging feature increases apiserver memory consumption, since some context +required for auditing is stored for each request. Additionally, memory consumption depends on the +audit logging configuration. + ## Audit Policy Audit policy defines rules about what events should be recorded and what data