undesired audit records "CounterRecord #e3258933382787ffe1fd8a0936a0c9ad created" in audit logs

Products

• CA API Gateway

Issue/Introduction

The audit logs contain a lot of audit records  like "INFO CounterRecord |<#e3258933382787ffe1fd8a0936a0c9ad> created"  

Can these records be suppressed ?

Environment

Gateway 10.x 11.x

Resolution

These records  are associated with the "throughput quota assertion". CounterRecord creation is an administrative event, that cannot prevented from getting logged.

Each throughput quota assertion will create a counter based on a combination/concatenation of different request attributes:

(e.g.: 13bb1d94-${request.authenticateduser.id}-${request.authenticateduser.providerid} or 13bb1d94-${request.tcp.remoteAddress} or 13bb1d94-${request.soap.operation}) which is logged if the counter is a new counterrecord in the database .

It is logged at INFO level logging , increasing the audit threshold to warning is currently the only way  to prevent the logging of this event.