Logging and monitoring in Amazon Inspector Classic - Amazon Inspector Classic

This is the user guide for Amazon Inspector Classic. For information about the new Amazon Inspector, see the Amazon Inspector User Guide. To access the Amazon Inspector Classic console, open the Amazon Inspector console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/inspector/, and then choose Amazon Inspector Classic in the navigation pane.

Logging and monitoring in Amazon Inspector Classic

Amazon Inspector Classic is integrated with AWS CloudTrail, a service that provides a record of actions taken by a user, role, or an AWS service in Amazon Inspector Classic. CloudTrail captures all API calls for Amazon Inspector Classic as events, including calls from the Amazon Inspector Classic console and code calls to the Amazon Inspector Classic API operations.

For information on using CloudTrail logging in Amazon Inspector Classic, see Logging Amazon Inspector Classic API calls with AWS CloudTrail.

You can monitor Amazon Inspector Classic using Amazon CloudWatch, which collects and processes raw data into readable, near-real time metrics. By default, Amazon Inspector Classic sends metric data to CloudWatch in 5-minute periods.

For information on using CloudWatch with Amazon Inspector Classic, see Monitoring Amazon Inspector Classic using Amazon CloudWatch.