Auditing: Changed defaults for data source queries audit logging settings

In Grafana 12.2.0, we introduced two new settings for controlling audit log emission for data source queries: log_datasource_query_request_body and log_datasource_query_response_body, which logs the request and response body payloads respectively.

At that time, in order to not introduce a change in the observed behavior, those settings defaulted to true.

However, as they are extremely verbose, the default for both of these settings is set to false in Grafana v13.

Mitigation

To enable these settings, set the following in your custom.ini or grafana.ini configuration file:

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[auditing]
log_datasource_query_request_body = true
log_datasource_query_response_body = true

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