Logging AWS Health API calls with AWS CloudTrail - AWS Health
AWS Health information in CloudTrailExample: AWS Health log file entries

Logging AWS Health API calls with AWS CloudTrail

AWS Health is integrated with AWS CloudTrail, a service that provides a record of actions taken by a user, role, or an AWS service in AWS Health. CloudTrail captures API calls for AWS Health as events. The calls captured include calls from the AWS Health console and code calls to the AWS Health API operations. If you create a trail, you can enable continuous delivery of CloudTrail events to an Amazon S3 bucket, including events for AWS Health. If you don't configure a trail, you can still view the most recent events in the CloudTrail console in Event history. Using the information collected by CloudTrail, you can determine the request that was made to AWS Health, the IP address that the request was made from, who made the request, when it was made, and additional details.

To learn more about CloudTrail, including how to configure and enable it, see the AWS CloudTrail User Guide.

AWS Health information in CloudTrail

CloudTrail is enabled on your AWS account when you create the account. When supported event activity occurs in AWS Health, that activity is recorded in a CloudTrail event along with other AWS service events in Event history. You can view, search, and download recent events in your AWS account. For more information, see Viewing Events with CloudTrail Event History.

For an ongoing record of events in your AWS account, including events for AWS Health, create a trail. A trail enables CloudTrail to deliver log files to an Amazon S3 bucket. By default, when you create a trail in the console, the trail applies to all AWS Regions. The trail logs events from all Regions in the AWS partition and delivers the log files to the Amazon S3 bucket that you specify. Additionally, you can configure other AWS services to further analyze and act upon the event data collected in CloudTrail logs. For more information, see the following:

All AWS Health API operations are logged by CloudTrail and are documented in the AWS Health API Reference. For example, calls to the DescribeEvents, DescribeEventDetails, and DescribeAffectedEntities operations generate entries in the CloudTrail log files.

AWS Health supports logging the following actions as events in CloudTrail log files:

  • Whether the request was made with root or IAM credentials

  • Whether the request was made with temporary security credentials for a role or federated user

  • Whether the request was made by another AWS service

For more information, see the CloudTrail userIdentity Element.

You can store your log files in your Amazon S3 bucket for as long as you want. You can also define Amazon S3 lifecycle rules to archive or delete log files automatically. By default, your log files are encrypted with Amazon S3 server-side encryption (SSE).

To be notified upon log file delivery, you can configure CloudTrail to publish Amazon SNS notifications when new log files are delivered. For more information, see Configuring Amazon SNS Notifications for CloudTrail.

You can also aggregate AWS Health log files from multiple AWS regions and multiple AWS accounts into a single Amazon S3 bucket.

For more information, see Receiving CloudTrail Log Files from Multiple Regions and Receiving CloudTrail Log Files from Multiple Accounts.

Example: AWS Health log file entries

A trail is a configuration that enables delivery of events as log files to an Amazon S3 bucket that you specify. CloudTrail log files contain one or more log entries. An event represents a single request from any source and includes information about the requested action, the date and time of the action, request parameters, and so on. CloudTrail log files aren't an ordered stack trace of the public API calls, so they don't appear in any specific order.

The following example shows a CloudTrail log entry that demonstrates the DescribeEntityAggregates operation.

{
   "Records": [
   {
   "eventVersion": "1.05",
   "userIdentity": {
      "type": "IAMUser",
      "principalId": "AIDACKCEVSQ6C2EXAMPLE",
      "arn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/JaneDoe",
      "accountId": "123456789012",
      "accessKeyId": "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE",
      "userName": "JaneDoe",
      "sessionContext": {"attributes": {
         "mfaAuthenticated": "false",
         "creationDate": "2016-11-21T07:06:15Z"
      }},
      "invokedBy": "AWS Internal"
    },
   "eventTime": "2016-11-21T07:06:28Z",
   "eventSource": "health.amazonaws.com",
   "eventName": "DescribeEntityAggregates",
   "awsRegion": "us-east-1",
   "sourceIPAddress": "203.0.113.0",
   "userAgent": "AWS Internal",
   "requestParameters": {"eventArns": ["arn:aws:health:us-east-1::event/EBS/EBS_LOST_VOLUME/EBS_LOST_VOLUME_123"]},
   "responseElements": null,
   "requestID": "05b299bc-afb9-11e6-8ef4-c34387f40bd4",
   "eventID": "e4deb9dc-dbc2-4bdb-8515-73e8abcbc29b",
   "eventType": "AwsApiCall",
   "recipientAccountId": "123456789012"
   }
   ],
   ...
}