Logging Amazon IVS API Calls with AWS CloudTrail
Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS) is integrated with AWS CloudTrail, a service that provides a record of actions taken by a user, role, or AWS service in Amazon IVS. CloudTrail captures all API calls for Amazon IVS as events. The calls captured include API calls from the Amazon IVS console and from your applications.
If you create a trail, you can enable continuous delivery of CloudTrail events to an Amazon S3 bucket, including Amazon IVS events. 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 IVS, 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 IVS Information in CloudTrail
CloudTrail is enabled on your AWS account when you create the account. When activity occurs in Amazon IVS, 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 IVS, 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 CloudTrail console, the trail applies to all AWS regions. The trail logs events from all Regions in the AWS partitions and delivers the log files to the Amazon S3 bucket that you specify. Additionally, you can configure other AWS services to analyze and act on the event data collected in CloudTrail logs. For more information, see these items in the CloudTrail User Guide:
All Amazon IVS actions are logged by CloudTrail and documented in the IVS Low-Latency Streaming API Reference,
IVS Real-Time Streaming API Reference, and
IVS Chat API Reference. For
example, calls to the CreateChannel, ListChannels, and
DeleteChannel endpoints generate entries in the CloudTrail log files.
Every event or log entry contains information about who generated the request. The identity information helps you determine whether the request was made:
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With root or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user credentials
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With temporary security credentials for a role or federated user.
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By another AWS service.
For more information, see the CloudTrail userIdentity Element.
Understanding Amazon IVS Log File Entries
A trail is a configuration that enables delivery of events as log files to an Amazon S3 bucket that you specify. 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 contain one or more log entries. CloudTrail log files are not an ordered stack trace of the public API calls, so they do not appear in any specific order.
The following example shows a CloudTrail log entry for the CreateChannel
endpoint.
{ "eventVersion": "1.05", "userIdentity": { "type": "AssumedRole", "principalId": "ABCDEFGHIJK1L2EXAMPLE:account_name", "arn": "arn:aws:sts::123456789012:assumed-role/First_Streamer/1234567890123456789", "accountId": "123456789012", "accessKeyId": "ABCDEFGHIJKL1EXAMPLE", "sessionContext": { "sessionIssuer": { "type": "Role", "principalId": "ABCDEFGHIJK1L2EXAMPLE", "arn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/Admin", "accountId": "123456789012", "userName": "First_Streamer" }, "webIdFederationData": {}, "attributes": { "mfaAuthenticated": "false", "creationDate": "2020-04-02T20:57:43Z" } } }, "eventTime": "2020-04-02T20:57:46Z", "eventSource": "ivs.amazonaws.com", "eventName": "CreateChannel", "awsRegion": "us-west-2", "sourceIPAddress": "10.10.10.10", "userAgent": "console.amazonaws.com", "requestParameters": { "name": "default" }, "responseElements": { "channel": { "arn": "arn:aws:ivs:us-west-2:123456789012:channel/1EXAMPLE", "authorized": false, "ingestEndpoint": "EXAMPLE.global-contribute.live-video.net", "latencyMode": "LOW", "name": "default", "playbackUrl": "https://EXAMPLE.m3u8", "tags": {} }, "streamKey": { "arn": "arn:aws:ivs:us-west-2:123456789012:stream-key/2EXAMPLE", "channelArn": "arn:aws:ivs:us-west-2:123456789012:channel/1EXAMPLE", "tags": {} } }, "requestID": "12a34bc5-EXAMPLE", "eventID": "a1b2c3de-EXAMPLE", "readOnly": false, "eventType": "AwsApiCall", "recipientAccountId": "123456789012" }
