Select and set up logs for analysis and alerting - AWS Security Incident Response User Guide

Select and set up logs for analysis and alerting

During a security investigation, you need to be able to review relevant logs to record and understand the full scope and timeline of the incident. Logs are also required for alert generation, indicating certain actions of interest have happened. It is critical to select, enable, store, and set up querying and retrieval mechanisms, and set up alerting. Each of these actions are reviewed in this section. For more details, see the Logging strategies for security incident response AWS blog post.