Logging Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager API Calls Using AWS CloudTrail
Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (Amazon DLM) is integrated with AWS CloudTrail, a service that provides a record of actions taken by a user, role, or an AWS service in Amazon DLM. CloudTrail captures all API calls for Amazon DLM as events, including calls from the Amazon DLM console and from code calls to the Amazon DLM APIs. If you create a trail, you can enable continuous delivery of CloudTrail events to an Amazon S3 bucket, including events for Amazon DLM. 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 Amazon DLM, the IP address from which the request was made, who made the request, when it was made, and additional details.
To learn more about CloudTrail, see the AWS CloudTrail User Guide.
Amazon DLM Information in CloudTrail
CloudTrail is enabled on your AWS account when you create the account. When activity occurs in Amazon DLM, 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 Amazon DLM, 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 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:
All Amazon DLM actions are logged by CloudTrail. For example, calls to the
CreateLifecyclePolicy and DeleteLifecyclePolicy actions generate
entries in the CloudTrail log files. For the complete list of actions, see Actions.
Every event or log entry contains information about who generated the request. The identity information helps you determine the following:
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Which user made the request.
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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.
Understanding Amazon DLM 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 are not an ordered stack trace of the public API calls, so they do not appear in any specific order.
Example: CreateLifecyclePolicy
The following is an example CloudTrail log entry for the CreateLifecyclePolicy action.
{ "eventVersion": "1.05", "userIdentity": { "type": "Root", "principalId": "123456789012", "arn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:root", "accountId": "123456789012", "accessKeyId": "AKIAJA2ELRVCPEXAMPLE", "userName": "user", "sessionContext": { "attributes": { "mfaAuthenticated": "false", "creationDate": "2018-07-24T18:01:05Z" } } }, "eventTime": "2018-07-24T18:20:28Z", "eventSource": "dlm.amazonaws.com", "eventName": "CreateLifecyclePolicy", "awsRegion": "us-west-2", "sourceIPAddress": "54.240.230.179", "userAgent": "console.ec2.amazonaws.com", "requestParameters": { "ExecutionRoleArn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/service-role/AWSDataLifecycleManagerServiceRole", "PolicyDetails": { "ResourceTypes": [ "VOLUME" ], "Schedules": [ { "CreateRule": { "Interval": 12, "IntervalUnit": "HOURS", "Times": [ "09:00" ] }, "Name": "Default Schedule", "RetainRule": { "Count": 3 }, "TagsToAdd": [ { "Key": "Name", "Value": "backup-my-volume" } ] } ], "TargetTags": [ { "Key": "Name", "Value": "my-volume" } ] }, "Description": "test-cloudtrail", "State": "DISABLED" }, "responseElements": { "PolicyId": "policy-04ff8755fce0599eb" }, "requestID": "3d714ca6-8f6e-11e8-92a4-35fd765427f0", "eventID": "28ab3121-6040-4a40-80c7-ae59b3adf405", "readOnly": false, "eventType": "AwsApiCall", "recipientAccountId": "123456789012" }
Example: DeleteLifecyclePolicy
The following is an example CloudTrail log entry for the DeleteLifecyclePolicy action.
{ "eventVersion": "1.05", "userIdentity": { "type": "Root", "principalId": "123456789012", "arn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:root", "accountId": "123456789012", "accessKeyId": "AKIAJA2ELRVCPEXAMPLE", "userName": "user", "sessionContext": { "attributes": { "mfaAuthenticated": "false", "creationDate": "2018-07-24T18:01:05Z" } } }, "eventTime": "2018-07-24T19:33:33Z", "eventSource": "dlm.amazonaws.com", "eventName": "DeleteLifecyclePolicy", "awsRegion": "us-west-2", "sourceIPAddress": "54.240.230.241", "userAgent": "console.ec2.amazonaws.com", "requestParameters": { "policyId": "policy-04ff8755fce0599eb" }, "responseElements": null, "requestID": "73260971-8f78-11e8-a156-598016e53fb2", "eventID": "3740f2fb-0d6a-4712-a7ad-eb9f17103fb2", "readOnly": false, "eventType": "AwsApiCall", "recipientAccountId": "123456789012" }
