Analytics Hub Private Exchange Public Listing Subscriber Logging

What Analytics Hub Listings and Subscriber Email Logging Are

BigQuery Analytics Hub allows organizations to publish and subscribe to shared datasets across organization and project boundaries without data replication. An Analytics Hub listing packages a shared dataset and exposes it via a data exchange, enabling subscribers to provision read-only linked datasets.

How It Meets the Requirements

• Private Exchange with Discoverable Listings: Analytics Hub permission inheritance dictates that while publicly discoverable exchanges cannot contain private listings, private data exchanges can host public listings. By configuring a private exchange and enabling Public Discoverability on specific listings while granting roles/analyticshub.viewer to allAuthenticatedUsers, the enterprise keeps the broader exchange secured while making individual listings discoverable to authenticated Google Cloud accounts.
• Principal Identification: Enabling Subscriber Email Logging automatically tracks the principal identifiers (email/subject) of subscribers running queries and jobs against the linked datasets. This metadata is populated in the job_principal_subject field of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SHARED_DATASET_USAGE view.
• Immutability: Once Subscriber Email Logging is enabled and saved on a listing, Google Cloud enforces an immutable design: this setting cannot be toggled off or edited, fulfilling the compliance and security requirement.

Key Advantages and Capabilities

• Granular Exposure: Permits granular public discoverability within a secure, private organizational exchange framework.
• Built-in Compliance: Provides native audit logs of external subscriber query activity directly via standard BigQuery INFORMATION_SCHEMA views.
• Tamper-Resistant Configuration: Guarantees non-repudiation and prevents accidental disabling of audit logging without deleting and recreating the listing.

Why This Is Optimal

This solution leverages native Analytics Hub discovery permissions and built-in subscriber logging without requiring custom log ingestion pipelines or compromising the privacy of the primary data exchange.