Accessing an activity stream from Amazon Kinesis

When you enable an activity stream for a DB cluster, a Kinesis stream is created for you. From Kinesis, you can monitor your database activity in real time. To further analyze database activity, you can connect your Kinesis stream to consumer applications. You can also connect the stream to compliance management applications such as IBM's Security Guardium or Imperva's SecureSphere Database Audit and Protection.

You can access your Kinesis stream either from the RDS console or the Kinesis console.

To access an activity stream from Kinesis using the RDS console

1. Open the Amazon RDS console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/rds/.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Databases.

3. Choose the DB cluster on which you started an activity stream.

4. Choose Configuration.

5. Under Database activity stream, choose the link under Kinesis stream.

6. In the Kinesis console, choose Monitoring to begin observing the database activity.

To access an activity stream from Kinesis using the Kinesis console

1. Open the Kinesis console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/kinesis.

2. Choose your activity stream from the list of Kinesis streams.

   An activity stream's name includes the prefix aws-rds-das-cluster- followed by the resource ID of the DB cluster. The following is an example.

   aws-rds-das-cluster-NHVOV4PCLWHGF52NP

   To use the Amazon RDS console to find the resource ID for the DB cluster, choose your DB cluster from the list of databases, and then choose the Configuration tab.

   To use the AWS CLI to find the full Kinesis stream name for an activity stream, use a describe-db-clusters CLI request and note the value of ActivityStreamKinesisStreamName in the response.

3. Choose Monitoring to begin observing the database activity.

For more information about using Amazon Kinesis, see What Is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?.