Logging Cloud Directory API Calls with CloudTrail
Amazon Cloud Directory is integrated with AWS CloudTrail, a service that captures all of the Cloud Directory API calls and delivers the log files to an Amazon S3 bucket that you specify. CloudTrail captures API calls from the Cloud Directory section of the AWS Directory Service console or from your code to the Cloud Directory APIs. Using the information collected by CloudTrail, you can determine the request that was made to Cloud Directory, the source IP address from which the request was made, who made the request, when it was made, and so on. To learn more about CloudTrail, see the AWS CloudTrail User Guide.
Cloud Directory Information in CloudTrail
CloudTrail is enabled on your AWS account when you create the account. When supported event activity occurs in Cloud Directory, 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 Cloud Directory, 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:
When CloudTrail logging is enabled in your AWS account, API calls made to Cloud Directory actions are tracked in CloudTrail log files, where they are written with other AWS service records. CloudTrail determines when to create and write to a new file based on a time period and file size.
The following Cloud Directory actions are logged by CloudTrail and are documented in this API Reference guide.
For example, calls to the ApplySchema, ListDirectories and CreateSchema sections generate entries in the CloudTrail log files.
Every log entry contains information about who generated the request. The user identity information in the log entry helps you determine the following:
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Whether the request was made with root or IAM user credentials
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Whether the request was made with temporary security credentials for a role or federated user
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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, but 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).
If you want 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 Cloud Directory 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.
Understanding Cloud Directory Log File Entries
CloudTrail log files can contain one or more log entries. Each entry lists multiple JSON-formatted events. A log entry 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. Log entries are not an ordered stack trace of the public API calls, so they do not appear in any specific order.
Sensitive information, such as passwords, authentication tokens, file comments, and file contents are redacted in the log entries.
The following example shows a CloudTrail log entry that demonstrates the following Cloud Directory actions:
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CreateSchema
ApplySchema: { "eventVersion": "1.05", "userIdentity": { "type": "IAMUser", "principalId": "ASDFLKJHEXAMPLE1QWERT", "arn": "arn:aws:iam::11223Example:user/nickpi", "accountId": "11223Example", "accessKeyId": "ALSKDJFHGQPWOExample", "userName": "nickpi" }, "eventTime": "2017-01-06T00:09:08Z", "eventSource": "clouddirectory.amazonaws.com", "eventName": "ApplySchema", "awsRegion": "us-east-1", "sourceIPAddress": "192.0.2.92", "userAgent": "Apache-HttpClient/4.3 (java 1.5)", "requestParameters": { "directoryArn": "arn:aws:clouddirectory:us-east-1:11223Example:directory/AsCGClGIlkIqweR836u9pyU", "publishedSchemaArn": "arn:aws:clouddirectory:us-east-1:11223Example:schema/published/simple_org-123456/1.0" }, "responseElements": { "directoryArn": "arn:aws:clouddirectory:us-east-1:11223Example:directory/AsCGClGIlkIqweR836u9pyU", "appliedSchemaArn": "arn:aws:clouddirectory:us-east-1:11223Example:directory/AsCGClGIlkIqweR836u9pyU/schema/simple_org-123456/1.0" }, "requestID": "12j45lk0-a1s2-00ie-b180-2b70510bd66f", "eventID": "733409ba-a869-4e7b-95a1-4d5d204e697c", "eventType": "AwsApiCall", "recipientAccountId": "11223Example" } ListDirectories: { "eventVersion": "1.05", "userIdentity": { "type": "IAMUser", "principalId": "ASDFLKJHEXAMPLE1QWERT", "arn": "arn:aws:iam::11223Example:user/nickpi", "accountId": "11223Example", "accessKeyId": "ALSKDJFHGQPWOExample", "userName": "nickpi" }, "eventTime": "2017-01-06T00:09:54Z", "eventSource": "clouddirectory.amazonaws.com", "eventName": "ListDirectories", "awsRegion": "us-east-1", "sourceIPAddress": "192.0.2.92", "userAgent": "Apache-HttpClient/4.3 (java 1.5)", "requestParameters": { "maxResults": 10 }, "responseElements": null, "requestID": "56j45l00-a1s2-00ie-b180-2b70660bd66f", "eventID": "uwjdf8-f003-4ef7-b15d-8a34149479ac", "eventType": "AwsApiCall", "recipientAccountId": "11223Example" } CreateSchema: { "eventVersion": "1.05", "userIdentity": { "type": "IAMUser", "principalId": "ASDFLKJHEXAMPLE1QWERT", "arn": "arn:aws:iam::11223Example:user/nickpi", "accountId": "11223Example", "accessKeyId": "ALSKDJFHGQPWOExample", "userName": "nickpi" }, "eventTime": "2017-01-06T00:08:54Z", "eventSource": "clouddirectory.amazonaws.com", "eventName": "CreateSchema", "awsRegion": "us-east-1", "sourceIPAddress": "192.0.2.92", "userAgent": "Apache-HttpClient/4.3 (java 1.5)", "requestParameters": { "name": "newName-111" }, "responseElements": { "schemaArn": "arn:aws:clouddirectory:us-east-1:11223Example:schema/development/newName-111" }, "requestID": "4jshkjsg-d3a4-11e6-b180-dfhkasdh", "eventID": "skdjf-0acb-426c-b64b-fsaj", "eventType": "AwsApiCall", "recipientAccountId": "11223Example" }
