From 2d5fbab25170b53ce88a7c0077d6a14d43d94514 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kaustubh J <79963138+thsubaku9-dgraph@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 17:28:43 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] bug fix to permit audit streaming to stdout writer(#7803)

---
 ee/audit/audit_ee.go | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ee/audit/audit_ee.go b/ee/audit/audit_ee.go
index 84097001c69..9748fde25da 100644
--- a/ee/audit/audit_ee.go
+++ b/ee/audit/audit_ee.go
@@ -63,7 +63,10 @@ func GetAuditConf(conf string) *x.LoggerConf {
 		return nil
 	}
 	auditFlag := z.NewSuperFlag(conf).MergeAndCheckDefault(worker.AuditDefaults)
-	out := auditFlag.GetPath("output")
+	out := auditFlag.GetString("output")
+	if out != "stdout" {
+		out = auditFlag.GetPath("output")
+	}
 	x.AssertTruef(out != "", "out flag is not provided for the audit logs")
 	encBytes, err := readAuditEncKey(auditFlag)
 	x.Check(err)