# Amazon CloudTrail Documentation

With Amazon CloudTrail, you can monitor your Amazon deployments in the cloud by getting a history of Amazon API calls for your account, including API calls made by using the Amazon Web Services Management Console, the Amazon SDKs, the command line tools, and higher-level Amazon services. You can also identify which users and accounts called Amazon APIs for services that support CloudTrail, the source IP address from which the calls were made, and when the calls occurred. You can integrate CloudTrail into applications using the API, automate trail creation for your organization, check the status of your trails, and control how administrators turn CloudTrail logging on and off.

- [User Guide](/en_us/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/index.html): Provides detailed descriptions of product concepts and includes instructions for using CloudTrail features with both the console and the command line interface.

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