Request Syntax URI Request Parameters Request Body Response Syntax Response Elements Errors See Also

CreateDetector

Creates a single GuardDuty detector. A detector is a resource that represents the GuardDuty service. To start using GuardDuty, you must create a detector in each Region where you enable the service. You can have only one detector per account per Region. All data sources are enabled in a new detector by default.

When you don't specify any features, with an exception to RUNTIME_MONITORING, all the optional features are enabled by default.
When you specify some of the features, any feature that is not specified in the API call gets enabled by default, with an exception to RUNTIME_MONITORING.

Specifying both EKS Runtime Monitoring (EKS_RUNTIME_MONITORING) and Runtime Monitoring (RUNTIME_MONITORING) will cause an error. You can add only one of these two features because Runtime Monitoring already includes the threat detection for Amazon EKS resources. For more information, see Runtime Monitoring.

There might be regional differences because some data sources might not be available in all the AWS Regions where GuardDuty is presently supported. For more information, see Regions and endpoints.

Request Syntax


POST /detector HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
   "clientToken": "string",
   "dataSources": { 
      "kubernetes": { 
         "auditLogs": { 
            "enable": boolean
         }
      },
      "malwareProtection": { 
         "scanEc2InstanceWithFindings": { 
            "ebsVolumes": boolean
         }
      },
      "s3Logs": { 
         "enable": boolean
      }
   },
   "enable": boolean,
   "features": [ 
      { 
         "additionalConfiguration": [ 
            { 
               "name": "string",
               "status": "string"
            }
         ],
         "name": "string",
         "status": "string"
      }
   ],
   "findingPublishingFrequency": "string",
   "tags": { 
      "string" : "string" 
   }
}

URI Request Parameters

The request does not use any URI parameters.

Request Body

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

clientToken

The idempotency token for the create request.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 64.

Required: No

dataSources

This parameter has been deprecated.

Describes which data sources will be enabled for the detector.

There might be regional differences because some data sources might not be available in all the AWS Regions where GuardDuty is presently supported. For more information, see Regions and endpoints.

Type: DataSourceConfigurations object

Required: No

enable

A Boolean value that specifies whether the detector is to be enabled.

Type: Boolean

Required: Yes

features

A list of features that will be configured for the detector.

Type: Array of DetectorFeatureConfiguration objects

Required: No

findingPublishingFrequency

A value that specifies how frequently updated findings are exported.

Type: String

Valid Values: FIFTEEN_MINUTES | ONE_HOUR | SIX_HOURS

Required: No

tags

The tags to be added to a new detector resource.

Type: String to string map

Map Entries: Maximum number of 200 items.

Key Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Key Pattern: ^(?!aws:)[a-zA-Z+-=._:/]+$

Value Length Constraints: Maximum length of 256.

Required: No

Response Syntax


HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
   "detectorId": "string",
   "unprocessedDataSources": { 
      "malwareProtection": { 
         "scanEc2InstanceWithFindings": { 
            "ebsVolumes": { 
               "reason": "string",
               "status": "string"
            }
         },
         "serviceRole": "string"
      }
   }
}

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

detectorId

The unique ID of the created detector.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 300.

unprocessedDataSources

Specifies the data sources that couldn't be enabled when GuardDuty was enabled for the first time.

Type: UnprocessedDataSourcesResult object

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

BadRequestException

A bad request exception object.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InternalServerErrorException

An internal server error exception object.

HTTP Status Code: 500