EKS Control Plane Logging Disabled

What this rule checks

Detects EKS clusters with no control plane log types enabled.

How to fix it

1. 1Enable api, audit, authenticator, controllerManager, and scheduler logs

import { App, Stack } from 'aws-cdk-lib';
import { Construct } from 'constructs';
import * as eks from 'aws-cdk-lib/aws-eks';

// FLAGGED: cluster created with no control plane logging.
new eks.CfnCluster(this, 'Cluster', {
  roleArn: 'arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/eks-cluster-role',
  resourcesVpcConfig: { subnetIds: ['subnet-0aaaa', 'subnet-0bbbb'] },
});

import { App, Stack } from 'aws-cdk-lib';
import { Construct } from 'constructs';
import * as eks from 'aws-cdk-lib/aws-eks';

// FIXED: all five control plane log types enabled.
new eks.CfnCluster(this, 'Cluster', {
  roleArn: 'arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/eks-cluster-role',
  resourcesVpcConfig: { subnetIds: ['subnet-0aaaa', 'subnet-0bbbb'] },
  logging: {
    clusterLogging: {
      enabledTypes: [
        { type: 'api' },
        { type: 'audit' },
        { type: 'authenticator' },
        { type: 'controllerManager' },
        { type: 'scheduler' },
      ],
    },
  },
});

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Affected resource types

Intentional? Suppress this finding

Sometimes a flag is deliberate — a genuinely public endpoint, say. You can dismiss eks-control-plane-logging-disabled and the reason is kept in the report, not silently hidden.

In .cdk-insights.json:

{
  "ignoreRules": [
    { "id": "eks-control-plane-logging-disabled", "reason": "Why this is intentional" }
  ]
}

Or inline in your CDK code:

Validations.of(scope).acknowledge({
  id: 'cdk-insights::eks-control-plane-logging-disabled',
  reason: 'Why this is intentional',
});

Use the rule ID eks-control-plane-logging-disabled shown above — not the CDK-* ID from SARIF / GitHub code scanning. To dismiss every finding on one construct instead, use ignorePaths. Suppression docs →

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