DescribeTrails
Retrieves settings for the trail associated with the current region for your account.
Request Syntax
{ "includeShadowTrails":
boolean
, "trailNameList": [ "string
" ] }
Request Parameters
For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.
- includeShadowTrails
-
Specifies whether to include shadow trails in the response. A shadow trail is the replication in a region of a trail that was created in a different region, or in the case of an organization trail, the replication of an organization trail in member accounts. If you do not include shadow trails, organization trails in a member account and region replication trails will not be returned. The default is true.
Type: Boolean
Required: No
- trailNameList
-
Specifies a list of trail names, trail ARNs, or both, of the trails to describe. The format of a trail ARN is:
arn:aws:cloudtrail:us-east-2:123456789012:trail/MyTrail
If an empty list is specified, information for the trail in the current region is returned.
-
If an empty list is specified and
IncludeShadowTrails
is false, then information for all trails in the current region is returned. -
If an empty list is specified and IncludeShadowTrails is null or true, then information for all trails in the current region and any associated shadow trails in other regions is returned.
Note
If one or more trail names are specified, information is returned only if the names match the names of trails belonging only to the current region. To return information about a trail in another region, you must specify its trail ARN.
Type: Array of strings
Required: No
-
Response Syntax
{ "trailList": [ { "CloudWatchLogsLogGroupArn": "string", "CloudWatchLogsRoleArn": "string", "HasCustomEventSelectors": boolean, "HomeRegion": "string", "IncludeGlobalServiceEvents": boolean, "IsMultiRegionTrail": boolean, "IsOrganizationTrail": boolean, "KmsKeyId": "string", "LogFileValidationEnabled": boolean, "Name": "string", "S3BucketName": "string", "S3KeyPrefix": "string", "SnsTopicARN": "string", "SnsTopicName": "string", "TrailARN": "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.
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.
- OperationNotPermittedException
-
This exception is thrown when the requested operation is not permitted.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- UnsupportedOperationException
-
This exception is thrown when the requested operation is not supported.
HTTP Status Code: 400
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: